People
Graduate Students
Dimitrios Arhontoulis M.S.
Dimitri joined the lab in 2025. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He is now finishing an M.D., Ph.D. program at the Medical University of South Carolina. In 2022, he was awarded an NIH F30 fellowship, which focused on designing tissue grafts to study tissue-level inflammation and developing hypoimmunogenic grafts for transplantation. Dimitri is pursuing a residency in ophthalmology. His research interests include uveitis, subretinal gene therapies, disease modeling, and biomarker identification.
Ditte Kamille Rasmussen B.S.
Ditte joined the lab in 2022 as a visiting student researcher from Denmark. She received her bachelor's degree in medicine from Aarhus University in 2020 and is currently working towards her master's degree. Ditte's research interests include genetic diseases of the retina. Her current work focuses on genetic components of age-related macular degeneration.
William Rojas-Carabali M.D., M.S.
William joined the lab in 2025. He is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar pursuing a Master of Science in Translational Research and Applied Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Universidad del Rosario, Colombia and a master’s in data science from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali. Prior to Stanford, William served as a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and as a visiting scholar at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. William’s research interests include ocular inflammatory diseases, ocular cancer, ophthalmic imaging and artificial intelligence, translational biomarker discovery, and bridging computational science with clinical applications.