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Tommaso Di Ianni, PhD

Working Title

Assistant Professor

Biography

Tommaso Di Ianni is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. He is the Director of the UCSF Basic Ultrasound Research Program and co-Director of the UCSF Focused Ultrasound in Neuroscience Program. 

Tommaso Di Ianni is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. He is the Director of the UCSF Basic Ultrasound Research Program and co-Director of the UCSF Focused Ultrasound in Neuroscience Program. His lab develops ultrasound-based innovations for image-guided treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Check our lab website for further information: https://diiannilab.org/.

  • Postdoc, 2023 - Radiology, Stanford University
  • MS, 2014 - Electronic Engineering, University of Bologna
  • BS, 2011 - Electronic Engineering, University of Bologna
  • PhD, 2107 - Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

Ultrasonography
Wireless Technology
Receptors, Opioid
Drug Delivery Systems
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Ultrasonic Waves
Wakefulness
Ketamine
Blood Flow Velocity
Sex Characteristics
RNA, Antisense
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Nerve Net
Data Compression
Prefrontal Cortex

  • Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant, NIH, 2025
  • PARC Fellowship, UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center, 2024
  • Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2019
  • New Investigator Award for Basic Science, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2017

August 1, 2025 - June 30, 2029 - Dissecting the circuit-level mechanisms of ultrasound neuromodulation , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01EB036474
August 26, 2024 - August 26, 2026 - Precise ultrasound neuromodulation in essential tremor , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Focused Ultrasound Foundation, Sponsor Award ID: unknown
May 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025 - Minimally invasive closed-loop neuromodulation via combined focused ultrasound and functional ultrasound imaging , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Catalyst Program, Sponsor Award ID: unknown

Contact information

1651 4th Street, #511E
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States