Reversing Aging
to Treat Disease

About Us

At Fountain Therapeutics, we have combined the expertise of leaders in aging research and computation to build a pipeline of therapeutics aimed at reversing cellular aging. Our mission is to decouple aging from disease and significantly extend human health span.

Our AI-driven platform extracts previously hidden cellular features to measure aging with remarkable precision. This has enabled us to generate unprecedented insights into the cellular aging process. We have united science, medicine and engineering to turn these insights and technologies into a powerful drug discovery and development engine for the treatment of age-related diseases.

Aging and Health

Aging is the predominant challenge to our health and quality of life.

Cellular aging shares similar biological pathways with many other physiological processes in our body. This provides us with an opportunity for therapeutic intervention to ameliorate many diseases of aging. At Fountain, we are dedicated to developing the first therapeutics to target and reverse aging processes as a new way to treat the many diseases that aging brings.

Fountain Team

Fountain is comprised of an exceptional team of scientists, engineers, physicians, drug hunters and developers, entrepreneurs and visionaries who see the path to a healthier future. Our team members’ unique experiences and extensive expertise in aging research and medicine are merged to achieve a universal goal of building a new way forward to treat age-related health conditions.

Management

John Dimos

John T Dimos, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

John T Dimos, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Dimos has extensive experience in the life sciences as an entrepreneur, investor and scientist.

Dr. Dimos was a founding scientist at the drug discovery platform technology company iPierian, which spun out True North Therapeutics. The two companies developed multiple clincal-stage assets and had ~$1.5 billion in exits. Before Fountain, Dr. Dimos helped launch and served as vice president at Mavericks Capital, an investment bank for early-stage life science companies developing new products in therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices and digital health. He later became responsible for pipeline and portfolio diligence at the investment platform Propel(x) Inc., and he remains a member of the investment committee at the Propel(x) affiliated Newton Fund, syndicating and investing in biotech and AI startups.

Dr. Dimos completed a fellowship at Harvard, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton in molecular biology and a B.S. from Tufts University. His research studies have been cited by over 6,000 publications, and his work with stem cells was featured on the cover of Time Magazine.

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Thomas Rando

Thomas Rando, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Chair of the
Board of Directors

Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors

Dr. Rando has more than 20 years of experience in aging research and has published over 150 research articles on stem cell aging and tissue repair.

Dr. Rando is a professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has worked for 25 years. He is director of the Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging and serves as deputy director of Stanford Center on Longevity. Dr. Rando is also chief of the neurology service and director of the Center for Regeneration, Repair, and Restoration (CTR3) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS), where he previously served as director or the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence/REAP and Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center. Dr. Rando is a founding director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic at the Stanford Medical Center.

Dr. Rando has been a pioneer and leader in the use of heterochronic parabiosis to study the role of blood and circulating factors in the biology of aging. In 2005 Dr. Rando published a seminal Nature paper demonstrating that factors in young serum can directly reverse many aspects of cellular and tissue aging. Publications from his lab have over 25,000 citations and he has given more than a hundred keynote lectures over the years at a variety of national and international research conferences and high-profile research and medical institutions. He actively serves as editor and board member of numerous scientific journals, including Aging and Disease, PLoS Biology and Aging Cell. 

Dr. Rando is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Over the course of his career, Dr. Rando has received more than 40 award nominations. He is a former Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar in aging, awarded by the American Federation for Aging Research and a former Ellison Medical Foundation senior scholar in aging. In 2005, he received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking research in stem cell biology. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the NIH’s National Institute of Aging, and holds board positions at numerous institutions, including Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the Buck Institute for Age Research.

Dr. Rando serves on the scientific advisory board of several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including Alkahest Inc., Gordian Biotechnology Inc., NDLX Health Sciences, and Novo Biosciences Inc. He previously served on the scientific advisory board of Fate Therapeutics, a $1.2 billion market cap company.

Dr. Rando received a B.A. from Harvard College, and holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University.

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Joe Rodgers

Joseph Rodgers, Ph.D.

Co-Founder,
Director of Biology

Joseph T. Rodgers, Ph.D.

Co-founder, Director of Biology

Dr. Rodgers has 18 years of experience in aging biology, stem cell and regenerative biology, and intermediary metabolism, and has published extensively in the field.

Dr. Rodgers co-founded Fountain in 2018 when he was an Assistant Professor at The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the Keck School of Medicine of The University of Southern California. In 2019 he joined Fountain fulltime. Over his career, Dr. Rodgers has authored many high-impact publications in Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell Metabolism, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. His research has been cited over 10,000 times. He has received the American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR) Junior Faculty Award, The Baxter Family Foundation Faculty Fellow Award, and the National Institute on Aging K99 Award for his research on aging and tissue repair.

Dr. Rodgers received a B.S. in chemistry and biology from John Carroll University and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

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Tom Cheung

Tom Cheung, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Tom Cheung, Ph.D.

Co-founder

Dr. Cheung has more than 15 years of experience in stem cell biology, cell metabolism and aging research.

Dr. Cheung is the S H Ho Associate Professor of Life Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research aims at increasing the understanding in adult stem cell function in the context of tissue regeneration, disease and aging. He is the director of the HKUST-NanFung Joint Laboratory and the HKUST-BGI Joint Research Center, and the associate director of the HKUST biosciences central research facility. Dr. Cheung was a recipient of the Croucher Innovation Award in 2015 for the study of molecular regulation of stem cell aging. He has authored numerous publications, including multiple publications in Nature, Cell Stem Cell, Molecular Cell and Developmental Cell.

Dr. Cheung holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry for the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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“Fountain is taking a unique phenotypic-driven approach for the discovery and development of therapeutics to reverse cellular aging.”
Gordon Ringold, Ph.D.
Gordon Ringold, Ph.D. Advisor – CEO, Quadriga Biosciences, Inc.
“Fountain’s AI technology has the potential to strongly impact our understanding of the aging process and the drug development approach within this field.”
Andrew Trister, M.D., Ph.D.
Andrew Trister, M.D., Ph.D.Advisor – Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
“Fountain’s foundational understanding of the science of aging is being translated into therapies to reduce the burden of chronic debilitating diseases.”
Thomas Novak, Ph.D.
Thomas Novak, Ph.D.Advisor – CSO, Autobahn Labs, Inc.
“I love how Fountain brings together cutting-edge research, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition to fight the ravages of aging.”
Frank Eeckman
Frank EeckmanAdvisor – Business Advisor, WaveEdge Capital
“Fountain is defined by our collaborative team and groundbreaking science, which includes a phenotypic screening approach with a 21st century angle.”
Matthew Duncton, Ph.D.
Matthew Duncton, Ph.D.Medicinal Chemist
“What draws me to Fountain are the people and their intrinsic motivation to resolving one of the seminal problems in humanity.”
Vinh Tran
Vinh TranEngineer
“What excites me about working with Fountain Therapeutics is the potential limitless impact of our work with the goal of developing therapeutics for aging-related diseases.”
Lincoln Smith, Ph.D.
Lincoln Smith, Ph.D.Scientist
“I’m drawn to Fountain because of the enormous potential we have to change how we age. Imagine not having to live our later years with the toll that aging takes on our health.”
Jessica Johnson
Jessica JohnsonScientist
“I joined Fountain because I was excited to leverage my expertise in machine learning, information theory, and statistical physics towards reversing cellular aging.”
Ryan Zarcone
Ryan ZarconeData Scientist
“Fountain’s research team has the unique ability to translate cutting-edge technology into better lives for patients. Together, we’re making the future a better place.”
Fernando Martinez, Ph.D.
Fernando Martinez, Ph.D.Senior Scientist
“What excites me the most about Fountain's team is their innovative application of computer vision to better understand the biology of aging-related diseases.”
Raj Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Raj Bhatnagar, Ph.D. Senior Computational Scientist
“I am fascinated by Fountain’s unique technology that combines artificial intelligence and complex science to fight aging.”
Joshua Chin
Joshua ChinLaboratory & Operations Manager
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We are looking for fellow scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who share our mission of building a new path forward to improve the length of quality life.

Interested in becoming part of our growing team passionate for innovation, technology and aging research?
Reach out to us: careers@fountaintx.com.

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