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.