Tanter Mickael

Tanter Mickael

Director of Physics for Medicine Paris
Research director at Inserm (DRCE)
mickael.tanter@espci.fr
ResearcherID: H-4657-2012
ORCID: 0000-0001-7739-8051
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Education

  • 2004 – “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”, Université Paris Diderot, France
  • 1999 – PhD in Physics, Université Paris Diderot, France
    “Application of time reversal focusing to brain HIFU treatments”
  • 1994 – Master of Science in Acoustics, Université Paris Diderot, France
  • 1994 – Electrical engineering degree at Supélec (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité), France

Professional experience

  • since 2005 – Tenured research director, Inserm, Paris, France
  • 2019-2024 – Director of Institute Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm U1273, ESPCI Paris-PSL, CNRS UMR 8063)
  • 2008-2018 – Director of Inserm U979 “Wave Physics for Medicine”, a research  unit within Institut Langevin, Paris, France
  • 2009-2018 – Deputy director of Institut Langevin, Paris, France
  • 2000-2005 – Tenured research officer, CNRS, Paris, France

Activities and Responsabilities

  • Director of the Institute of Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm U1273, CNRS UMR 8063, ESPCI Paris)
  • Director of the Accelerator of Technology Research (A.R.T. Inserm) in Biomedical Ultrasound
  • Deputy Director of the Langevin Institute (CNRS UMR7587) from 2014 to 2019
  • Co-Founder and Shareholder of SEISME inc. in 2000 (licencing the exclusive world patent of Fibroscan®)
  • Co-Founder and Share Holder of SUPERSONIC IMAGINE inc. in 2005 (200 employees)
  • Co-Founder and Shareholder of CARDIAWAVE inc. in 2015
  • Co-Founder and Shareholder of ICONEUS inc. in 2017
  • Co-Founder and Shareholder of EMYOSOUND inc. in 2022
  • Member of the Administration Board of European Society of Molecular Imaging
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
  • Member of the Scientific Board of Region Ile de France 2011-2015
  • Member of the Scientific Board of Caviskills company 2013-2014
  • Member of the Scientific Board of IEEE UFFC since 2009
  • Elected Member of the Administrative board of IEEE UFFC 2012-2015
  • Member of the Inserm Commission CSS8 (2012-2016)
  • Member of the Brain Advisory Board of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (2009-2012)
  • Invited to give more than 150 invited talks and plenary lectures in international conferences
  • Co-invented more than 50 patent families in the field of biomedical engineering
  • Co-authored more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals
  • Google Scholar : h-Index 106, > 45 000 citations  /  ISI Web of Knowledge : h-Index 91, > 32 000 citations
  • Participation to more than 100 jurys for national or international PhD defense

Main Awards and Distinctions  

  • since 2025 – Elected Member of the French Academy of Science
  • 2023 – Ambassador’s Professor Chair of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kulak, Belgium
  • 2023 – Laureate of an ERC Synergy Grant (Project NeuroSonoGene)
  • 2022 – Gordon Moore Professor of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), USA
  • 2022 – Boehraave Professor Distinction of Leiden University, Netherlands
  • 2022 – Ambassadeur France 2030 pour l’Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche
  • 2019 – Rotblat Prize of Physics for Medicine and Biology journal for the most cited publication in Physics for Medicine in the last 5 years
  • since 2019 – Elected Member of the European Academy of Science
  • since 2019 – Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science
  • 2018 – Grand Prize of the European Society for Molecular Imaging
  • 2017 – Britton Chance Distinguished Lecture of the World Society for Molecular Imaging, USA
  • 2017 – Carl Hellmuth Hertz Award of the IEEE society for Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
  • since 2016 – Distinguished Professor of ESPCI Paris
  • 2016 – Grand Prix of the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM)
  • 2015 – Grand Prize of the Fondation NRJ, Institut de France, French Academy of Science
  • 2015 – Distinguished Lecture in Biomedical Engineering of CalTech university
  • 2015 – Carson-Zagzebski Distinguished Lecture of the American Association of Physics in Medicine
  • 2015 – Research Prize of Langlois Foundation, Paris, France
  • 2015 – Outstanding Paper Award of the international journal IEEE Transactions in Ultrasonics
  • 2015 – Prize of the fondation pour l’innovation thérapeutique Béatrice Denys (project Valvopulse)
  • 2014 – Roberts Prize of Physics in Medicine and Biology for the best paper of the year

Main publications

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Renaudin N, Demené C, Dizeux A, Ialy-Radio N, Pezet S, Tanter M. Functional ultrasound localization microscopy reveals brain-wide neurovascular activity on a microscopic scale. Nat Methods 2022;19:1004–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01549-5.
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Demené C, Robin J, Dizeux A, Heiles B, Pernot M, Tanter M, et al. Transcranial ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy of brain vasculature in patients. Nat Biomed Eng 2021;5:219–28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00697-x.
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Bergel A, Tiran E, Deffieux T, Demené C, Tanter M, Cohen I. Adaptive modulation of brain hemodynamics across stereotyped running episodes. Nature Communications 2020;11:6193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19948-7.
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Dizeux A, Gesnik M, Ahnine H, Blaize K, Arcizet F, Picaud S, et al. Functional ultrasound imaging of the brain reveals propagation of task-related brain activity in behaving primates. Nat Commun 2019;10:1400. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09349-w.
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Osmanski B-F, Pezet S, Ricobaraza A, Lenkei Z, Tanter M. Functional ultrasound imaging of intrinsic connectivity in the living rat brain with high spatiotemporal resolution. Nat Commun 2014;5:5023. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6023.
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Mace E, Montaldo G, Osmanski B-F, Cohen I, Fink M, Tanter M. Functional ultrasound imaging of the brain: theory and basic principles. IEEE Trans Ultrason, Ferroelect, Freq Contr 2013;60:492–506. https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2592.

Latest publications

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Haidour N, Favre H, Mateo P, Reydet J, Bizé A, Sambin L, et al. Multi-lens ultrasound arrays enable large scale three-dimensional micro-vascularization characterization over whole organs. Nat Commun 2025;16:9317. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64911-z.
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Leadford B, Guillaumin J-B, Tanter M, Aubry J-F, Berthon B. A Novel 3-D Multiparametric Ultrasonic Phantom for Anatomy, Elasticity, Blood Flow and Tissue Orientation Imaging. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2025.07.030.
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Griggs WS, Norman SL, Tanter M, Liu C, Christopoulos V, Shapiro MG, et al. Functional ultrasound neuroimaging reveals mesoscopic organization of saccades in the lateral intraparietal area. Nat Commun 2025;16:8752. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63826-z.
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Negri S, Nyul-Toth A, Milan M, Troyano-Rodriguez E, Tavakol S, Ihuoma J, et al. A Minimally Invasive Framework Reveals Region-Specific Cerebrovascular Remodeling in Aging Using Intravital Functional Ultrasound Imaging and Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (fUS-ULM). Adv Sci (Weinh) 2025:e10754. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202510754.
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Blanvillain V, Robin J, Perdios D, Ialy-Radio N, Demene C, Tanter M. Singular value decomposition of microbubbles echoes for skull aberration corrections in ultrasound localization microscopy. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2025;70:. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/adf938.
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Estrada H, Deffieux T, Robin J, Tanter M, Razansky D. Imaging the brain by traversing the skull with light and sound. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2025:1–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-025-01433-5.

 

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