DVM Riikka Laukkanen-Ninios received the award of the best doctoral thesis of the year 2010 in the ABS Graduate School for her PhD thesis ”Enteropathogenic Yersinia in pork production”. Professor Katrina Nordström from Aalto University chose the winner from four preselected candidates. In total, 17 doctoral theses were finished in the ABS Graduate School in 2010.

Previously, Riikka Laukkanen-Ninios received an award for commendable research in the field of food sciences by the Finnish Association of Food Sciences for her thesis.

The Finnish Graduate School on Applied Bioscience: Bioengineering, Food & Nutrition, Environment (ABS graduate school) was established in the beginning of 1995. The ABS Graduate School is an associated graduate school of four universities, University of Helsinki , University of Turku, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus and Aalto University, and four research instutes, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, National Institute for Health and Welfare, The Finnish Food Safety Authority, Evira and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. There are about 170 students in the School. http://www.vetmed.helsinki.fi/abs/index.htm