Joseph Rodgers

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.