Company

The people behind Florida Man Bioscience.

Founders, operators, and the full 14-person cohort from our 2026 Nucleate Activator challenge — scientists and builders who refuse to choose between rigor and speed.

Founding team

Six founders.

Public roles as shown on the company site. Formal titles and equity structure live in internal governance — not restated here.

Portrait of Noah T. Jones
Noah T. Jones
Founder & CEO

Builds the engine and app foundations. Bioinformatics, pipeline architecture, and company operations.

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Curtis Dearing
Co-founder · PeptOdyssey

Co-founder. Core builder of the U4U / PeptidIQ engine and the PeptOdyssey product surface.

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Garrett Knotts
Co-founder · Omics

Core founder. Structural biology of calcium-sensing and transmembrane proteins; metabolism and mitochondria-focused science.

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Michael MacNair
Co-founder · Structural biology

Core founder. Structural biochemistry and VR structural-biochemistry platform leadership.

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Portrait of Jacob Davis
Jacob Davis
Founder · Bioinformatics

Founder. Bioinformatics and immunology.

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Tyler Kopf
Founder · Clinical & operations

Founder. Clinical and operations; skunkworks and program execution.

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2026 Nucleate Activator

Contributors who built with us.

Everyone who joined the Activator cohort and extended build — clinical, safety, oncology genetics, metabolism, engineering, GTM, and ops. Includes Rocky Truong, Kayla Schwartz, Min Young Park, Sasank Desaraju, and the full contributor bench.

Sasank Desaraju
Clinical anchor · U4U contributor

MD/PhD student, University of Florida. Clinical link and U4U intelligence; engine contributor.

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Kayla Schwartz
Safety & contraindications

MD-PhD student, University of Miami. Safety / contraindication layer for genotype-aware peptide protocols.

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Rocky Truong
Oncology genetics · VR structural biochemistry

Post-doc, Moffitt Cancer Center. Oncology genetics advisor; VR structural biochemistry project lead.

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Min Young Park
Metabolism · MitoFocus

Metabolism, adipose biology, and nutrition. Nucleate Activator contributor.

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Delaney Ding
Clinical & translational strategy

Clinical and public-health researcher guiding clinical and translational strategy.

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Christopher Marais
Activator contributor

2026 Nucleate Activator teammate (joined mid-program). Public marketing role only.

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Hampton Copeland
Engineering lead

Graduate student, MTSU. Engineering lead for platform and infrastructure.

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Jeran Fox
Marketing & growth

GTM and growth; channel and go-to-market execution.

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Ty Dearing
Contributor

Non-founder contributor supporting company operations and growth.

Advisors

Strategic guidance.

External advisors supporting commercialization and partnerships.

Giuseppina Sannino
Commercialization advisor

Founder & CEO, Auralis Biotech. Commercialization and strategic partnership advisor.

Work with us

Clinics, collaborators, builders.

Whether you are a clinician, scientist, or operator — we are open to collaboration across the Detect → Design → Deliver stack.