TheraFUS Laboratory · Tor Vergata
Focused ultrasound.
Brain research.
TheraFUS laboratory develops novel low-intensity focused ultrasound (FUS) techniques for therapeutic applications.
Department of
Biomedicine and Prevention
01 / What we do
Four directions.
One focused approach.
Research on targeted drug delivery, deep-brain stimulation and numerical simulation of transcranial ultrasound.
Currently ongoing projects
- FUS-inducing blood-brain barrier opening to augment anticancer drugs delivery in brain tumors
- FUS-augmenting drugs delivery to improve the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
- Ultrasound deep-brain neurostimulation for treating brain disorders and degenerative diseases
- Numerical simulation of transcranial FUS based on highly resolved human and animal head models
02 / Our team
The people behind
the research.
Allegra Conti
Tenure-track Researcher
Head of TheraFUS Laboratory
Expert in FUS applications (BBB opening and acoustic nerve modulation), animal experiments and numerical simulations.
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Nicola Toschi
Full Professor of Medical Physics
Head of Medical Physics Section hosting TheraFUS Lab
Expert in neurostimulation, numerical simulations and neurophysiological signal analysis.
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Antonio Canichella
Technical Officer
Expert in neurophysiological signal recording and analysis.
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Valentin Beaufils
Postdoctoral Researcher
Teresa Giannattasio
Postdoctoral Researcher
Marta Grossi
Doctoral Researcher
Numerical simulations for Acoustic Treatment Planning
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Marco Micali
Doctoral Researcher
Acoustic Neuromodulation in neurological disorders
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Anastasija Neimane
Doctoral Researcher
Bilal Nizami
Doctoral Researcher
BBB Physiology and FUS-aided drug delivery
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Chiara Maria Salzano
Doctoral Researcher
Alumni and former students 3
Flavia Franceschini
Biotechnology researcher
Patrícia Cardoso de Andrade
Postdoctoral Researcher
Expert in therapeutic ultrasound and in silico modeling.
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Narges Nasrollahi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Work with us
Research with TheraFUS.
PhD and postdoctoral research in acoustic neuromodulation and ultrasound-aided drug delivery.