Ines Drissi Qeytoni

Ines is a Ph.D. student in the Health Sciences Engineering program, a joint program between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that brings together engineering and biomedical science. She graduated cum laude from the University of Rochester in 2026 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a concentration in Cell and Tissue Engineering.

As an undergraduate, Ines worked across synthetic biology, aging, and neurodegeneration. She was a member of Rochester’s 2023 iGEM team, Rosynth, where she helped develop a 3D bioprinting platform for co-culturing yeast and bacteria to improve the sustainable production of plant-derived chemicals. The team received a Gold Medal and was nominated for Best Hardware and Best Biomanufacturing Project. She later joined the Gorbunova/Seluanov Lab, where she studied transposable element activity during aging and cellular reprogramming, as well as the effects of PYHIN knockout on exercise-induced inflammation.

Ines also spent a summer in the Ellerby Lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, where she studied genotype-dependent differences in protein succinylation in iPSC-derived neurons across APOE genotypes and how these phenotypes change in response to amyloid beta.

In the Victor Lab, Ines is interested in bringing her engineering background to questions in neurodegeneration, particularly how genetic and environmental factors shape microglial phagocytic behavior and how the brain-CSF interface mediates communication between the brain and its surrounding environment.

Email: drissi@rpi.edu

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ines-drissi-qeytoni-19b7b0337/