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 describe the work.

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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

Builds the PeptOdyssey engine and the clinician-facing product surface.

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Garrett Knotts
Co-founder · Omics

Calcium-sensing and transmembrane proteins; metabolism and mitochondria-focused science.

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Michael MacNair
Co-founder · Structural biology

Structural biochemistry and the VR structural-biochemistry platform.

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Jacob Davis
Founder · Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics and immunology.

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Tyler Kopf
Founder · Clinical & operations

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. Named contributors: Sasank Desaraju, Kayla Schwartz, Rocky Truong, Min Young Park, Delaney Ding, Christopher Marais, Hampton Copeland, and Jeran Fox.

Sasank Desaraju
Clinical anchor · PeptOdyssey contributor

MD/PhD student, University of Florida. Clinical link and PeptOdyssey 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

Joined the 2026 Nucleate Activator cohort mid-program.

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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.