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As a finalist for the prestigious European Commission ‘Woman Innovators Award’, Image Analysis’ founder and CEO Dr Olga Kubassova has been invited to attend the EC Innovation Union’s ‘Innovation Conference 2011’. This conference, which will take place in Brussels, includes various debates, Master Classes, Round Tables, and lectures with exclusive key note speakers including an eminent Nobel Prize Laureate on why science matters and from some of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and social aspect of innovation.

The event will explore the broader strategic and social implications of sustainable innovation and allow delegates to interact and receive valuable feedback from world renowned key opinion leaders and stakeholders from the fields of science, healthcare, government and business. It is an exciting opportunity to both; promote Image Analysis as a world leader in the field of advanced visualisation of medical images, and to learn from some of the most respected and successful business innovators in the world.

If you would like to find out more about the European Innovation Union please click here.

IA’s Bart Kozinski presented at the Polish ‘Rheumatoid hand’ conference on the 19th of November alongside Dr. Agnieszka Warczyńska. Bart’s presentation, ‘Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI examination in rheumatoid hand’, and our stand at the conference were very well received and we are looking forward to working with our Polish counterparts, not only in the field of Rheumatology but also in MSK, Oncology and Neurology.

If you would like to download a Polish translation of our brochure click here.

Image Analysis Ltd’s Dr Olga Kubassova was featured in the Financial Times article ‘IP boost for students’ on Saturday 29th October. To view the article Click Here

The article cites IA’s success as an example of why universities should be more open with their Intellectual Property (IP) and be more proactive in encouraging students to be entrepreneurial.

Watch key members of the IA team being interviewed at EULAR 2011. ‘Videos are produced by ISEMIR, Rheumatology, Best Practices in Imaging.’

Treat to Target: MRI and US use in rheumatology with Norman Gaylis, President of International Society of Rheumatology

Cost effective therapy for MSK patients vs. Imaging, with Prof. P. Taylor (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, UK),

Quantification of Inflammation with MRI, with Mikael Boesen, MD, PhD, Head of MRI Research, the Parker Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Usage of extremity MRI in routine practice, with Prof. Marco Cimmino, Genoa, Italy

Usage of Advanced Software for Quantification of MRI in clinical routine, research and Randomised Clinical trials, with Dr. Olga Kubassova, CEO of Image Analysis, United Kingdom.

IA’s MD, Dr Olga Kubassova, has been nominated for the Prestigious ‘EU Woman Innovators’ Awards, presented by the European Comission. Olga will present to the European Comission and be interviewed by a panel tomorrow. To be nominated for such a coveted international award is an achievement in itself, we will keep you posted as soon as we here any news.

Image Analysis’ Chairman Jeremy Nettle chaired a debate on ‘NHS Information Revolution: using information to improve quality’ at the King’s Fund London last week amongst the topics being discussed were:

· NICE quality standards and the Commissioning Outcomes Framework: a work in progress – Fergus Macbeth, Director of the Centre for Clinical Practice, NICE

· Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups – Ailsa Claire OBE, Director of Commissioning Development, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber and Lead on Commissioning Intelligence for CCGs, Department of Health

· BCS: enabling an NHS Information Revolution – Justin Whatling, Vice Chair Strategy and Policy, BCS Health

To view biographies of all those involved follow this link

Image Analysis’ Senior Sales Executive Bart Kozinski will be presenting ‘MRI Examination of the Rheumatoid Hand’ in conjunction with a radiologist Dr. Agnieszka Warczyńska (Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw) at the ‘Rheumatoid Hand- Diagnostic, Treatment and Rehabilitation’ (Ręka reumatoidalna – diagnostyka, leczenie i rehabilitacja) Conference in Poland on the 19th of November. Using images generated by Dynamika from case studies which have used DCE-MRI, Bart has collaborated closely with our Clinical Director, Mikael Boesen who is a well regarded expert in the field, to produce a presentation showing how DCE-MRI and Dynamika are the best tools for exploring the multi-factorial aetiology of this disease. Key international speakers also in attendance include; Dr James Teh from University of Oxford (John Radcliffe Hospital) and Prof Massimo Ceruso (surgeon from Florence).

Image Analysis was invited by Prof. Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska (Chairwoman of the conference) from the Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw, which is one of the honorary patrons of the conference.

The Image analysis team will be attending the American College of Rheumatology Conference on the 5th – 9th November 2011. We are very excited to be able to promote our new software release which vastly improves the processing, functionality and user interface of Dynamika. Are you attending? Why not let us know via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Image Analysis has been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘EU Women Innovators’ Award, which is awarded by the European Commission Innovation Union. The award will be presented in Brussels at the 2011 Innovation Convention. The Innovation Union promotes entrepreneurs and researchers throughout the EU through various innitiatives and IA is proud to recieve such a prestigious nomination. We hope our innovative flagship MRI software Dynamika and our first class standards of service will see us sail through to the awards final.

We’ll let you know as soon as we here if we’ve been selected so do keep checking up on us.

Want to check out the awards for yourself? Simply follow this link http://bit.ly/pp7n7c

The company: Image Analysis

The boss: Dr Olga Kubassova

The road to the Future 50 was long and winding for Dr Olga Kubassova. Born in Ust-Kamenogorsk in Kazakhstan, she showed early promise in maths and was packed off to the Republic Physics and Mathematics Boarding School in Almaty. From there, Kubassova progressed to St Petersburg State University where she took her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in maths and mechanics. She took a second master’s in computer science in Finland. And then a scholarship to Leeds University to complete a PhD, where her pioneering work on using computers to analyse MRI scans resulted in her founding Image Analysis.

Normally, a doctor stares at the results of an MRI scan. After a few hours of examining the data, doctors can get tired and make mistakes. Kubassova’s algorithms replace the doctor and cut analysis time by half, massively reducing the chances of wrongful diagnosis. Image Analysis’ software is already being sold Europe-wide, and has been repeatedly proven to beat human analysis. Margins on sales are high and these are still early figures, and Image Analysis is set to crack a worldwide market.

We see massive earning potential here.

Full Article is available here: http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/future-50-star-image-analysis