Tyler DiStefano

Washington D.C. Metro Area United States

Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Fellow at National Institutes of Health

Education

I am a highly motivated engineer that currently works at the National Institutes of Health as a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Fellow. My position is uniquely situated between the National Eye Institute (NEI) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to design and fabricate a bioprocess system (bioreactor and biomaterial combination) for retinal tissue engineering applications. My undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union has provided me with a rigorous technical and analytical skill set while it simultaneously guided the foundation of my professional and academic objectives. In particular, I would like to leverage the ski...