Dr. Tommaso Di Ianni is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging (joint appointment) at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the Director of the UCSF Basic Ultrasound Research Program.
Dr. Di Ianni completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University, where he received the Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2019 for his work on ultrasound technologies for functional neuroimaging and targeted image-guided neuromodulation. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and an MS degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy.
Research in the Di Ianni Lab focuses on developing cutting-edge technologies for ultrasound neuromodulation, functional ultrasound imaging, and image-guided neurointervention. Check our website for further information: https://diiannilab.ucsf.edu.
Honors and Awards
UCSF Catalyst Award, UCSF Catalyst Program - Weill Institute for Neurosciences, 2024
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
Publications
Fan JM, Woodworth K, Murphy KR, Hinkley L, Cohen JL, Yoshimura J, Choi I, Tremblay-McGaw AG, Mergenthaler J, Good CH, Pellionisz PA, Lee AM, Di Ianni T, Sugrue LP, Krystal AD. Thalamic transcranial ultrasound stimulation in treatment resistant depression. Brain Stimul. 2024 Aug 22; 17(5):1001-1004.
Murphy KR, Farrell JS, Bendig J, Mitra A, Luff C, Stelzer IA, Yamaguchi H, Angelakos CC, Choi M, Bian W, DiIanni T, Pujol EM, Matosevich N, Airan R, Gaudillière B, Konofagou EE, Butts-Pauly K, Soltesz I, de Lecea L. Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology. Neuron. 2024 Jul 29.
Di Ianni T, Ewbank SN, Levinstein MR, Azadian MM, Budinich RC, Michaelides M, Airan RD. Sex dependence of opioid-mediated responses to subanesthetic ketamine in rats. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 30; 15(1):893.
Di Ianni T, Morrison KP, Yu B, Murphy KR, de Lecea L, Airan RD. High-throughput ultrasound neuromodulation in awake and freely behaving rats. Brain Stimul. 2023 Nov-Dec; 16(6):1743-1752.
Levinstein MR, Carlton ML, Di Ianni T, Ventriglia EN, Rizzo A, Gomez JL, Budinich RC, Shaham Y, Airan RD, Zarate CA, Bonaventura J, Michaelides M. Mu Opioid Receptor Activation Mediates (S)-ketamine Reinforcement in Rats: Implications for Abuse Liability. Biol Psychiatry. 2023 06 15; 93(12):1118-1126.
Di Ianni T, Airan RD. Deep-fUS: A Deep Learning Platform for Functional Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain Using Sparse Data. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2022 07; 41(7):1813-1825.
Wang JB, Di Ianni T, Vyas DB, Huang Z, Park S, Hosseini-Nassab N, Aryal M, Airan RD. Focused Ultrasound for Noninvasive, Focal Pharmacologic Neurointervention. Front Neurosci. 2020; 14:675.
Di Ianni T, Bose RJC, Sukumar UK, Bachawal S, Wang H, Telichko A, Herickhoff C, Robinson E, Baker S, Vilches-Moure JG, Felt SA, Gambhir SS, Paulmurugan R, Dahl JD. Ultrasound/microbubble-mediated targeted delivery of anticancer microRNA-loaded nanoparticles to deep tissues in pigs. J Control Release. 2019 09 10; 309:1-10.
Di Ianni T, Hansen KL, Villagomez Hoyos CA, Moshavegh R, Nielsen MB, Jensen JA. Portable Vector Flow Imaging Compared With Spectral Doppler Ultrasonography. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2019 03; 66(3):453-462.
Di Ianni T, Villagomez Hoyos CA, Ewertsen C, Kjeldsen TK, Mosegaard J, Nielsen MB, Jensen JA. A Vector Flow Imaging Method for Portable Ultrasound Using Synthetic Aperture Sequential Beamforming. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2017 11; 64(11):1655-1665.
Di Ianni T, Hemmsen MC, Llimos Muntal P, Jorgensen IH, Jensen JA. System-Level Design of an Integrated Receiver Front End for a Wireless Ultrasound Probe. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2016 11; 63(11):1935-1946.
Di Ianni T, De Marchi L, Perelli A, Marzani A. Compressive sensing of full wave field data for structural health monitoring applications. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2015 Jul; 62(7):1373-83.
Perelli A, Di Ianni T, Marzani A, De Marchi L, Masetti G. Model-based compressive sensing for damage localization in Lamb wave inspection. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2013 Oct; 60(10):2089-97.
