News and Updates

January 14, 2026

Rejuve Files Provisional Patent Application for Cellular Rejuvenation Technology

Rejuve Therapeutics filed U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/960,217, titled “Methods for Rejuvenating Mammalian Cells.”

The application describes controlled approaches designed to rejuvenate aged or senescent mammalian cells while preserving their original cellular identity, including methods intended to limit dedifferentiation during cellular reprogramming. It also covers screening approaches for identifying and evaluating potential cellular rejuvenation interventions.

This filing established an initial intellectual-property foundation for Rejuve’s development of safer and more precisely controlled cellular rejuvenation technologies.

March 5, 2026

Derya Unutmaz, MD, Joins Rejuve’s Scientific Advisory Board

Rejuve Therapeutics welcomed Derya Unutmaz, MD, to its Scientific Advisory Board.

Dr. Unutmaz is a professor at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and an internationally recognized immunologist whose research examines human T-cell differentiation, activation and regulation in immune responses, chronic diseases and aging.

His expertise in human immunology, cellular differentiation, aging biology and data-driven biomedical research will support Rejuve’s investigation of the molecular mechanisms of cellular aging and its development of strategies to restore youthful cellular function while preserving cell identity.

June 22, 2026

Rejuve Establishes Sponsored Research Collaboration for Computational Analysis of Cellular Aging

Rejuve Therapeutics entered into a sponsored research agreement with a leading U.S. research university to support advanced computational analysis of Rejuve’s Longitudinal Aging and Rejuvenation Gene Expression Atlas.

Rejuve is developing this proprietary single-cell dataset using primary human arterial endothelial cells across five interconnected biological trajectories:

  • Replicative aging and cellular senescence
  • Controlled cellular rejuvenation under defined experimental conditions
  • Reprogramming-related cellular transitions
  • Differentiation-related cellular transitions
  • Dedifferentiation-related cellular transitins

 

The collaboration will apply advanced computational and machine-learning methods to characterize major and intermediate cellular states, reconstruct molecular trajectories and identify transcriptional programs associated with aging, rejuvenation and preservation of endothelial identity.

The research will also compare shared and trajectory-specific molecular features and prioritize candidate regulatory genes, pathways and gene combinations for downstream experimental validation by Rejuve.

Certain details, including the identity of the institution and principal investigator, are not included in this announcement in accordance with applicable contractual publicity obligations.

June 28, 2026

Rejuve Files U.S. Nonprovisional Patent Application

Rejuve Therapeutics filed U.S. Nonprovisional Patent Application No. 19/722,877, titled “Methods for Rejuvenating Mammalian Cells,” advancing the intellectual-property protection initiated through its January 2026 provisional filing.

The application covers controlled approaches intended to rejuvenate aged or senescent mammalian cells while preserving their original cellular identity. It also includes screening methods for identifying and evaluating potential cellular rejuvenation interventions.

The filing represents an important step in Rejuve’s strategy to translate its cellular-rejuvenation discoveries into a protected therapeutic-development platform.

July 18, 2026

Rejuve Expands Its Computational Discovery Program Through Agreement with Strata Biolab Inc

Rejuve Therapeutics entered into an AI and data-analysis services agreement with Strata Biolab, together with an initial statement of work focused on Rejuve’s proprietary human arterial endothelial cell aging and rejuvenation single-cell RNA-sequencing dataset.

Under the agreement, Strata will apply agentic AI-enabled computational biology, machine learning, statistical analysis and related analytical workflows to identify and prioritize candidate regulatory genes, gene programs, pathways and network features associated with endothelial aging, cellular senescence, rejuvenation, differentiation and cellular reprogramming.

The Strata engagement complements—and does not replace—Rejuve’s existing sponsored research collaboration announced on June 22, 2026. The two programs have separately defined scopes and provide complementary analytical capabilities and perspectives.

Together, these efforts are intended to strengthen biological interpretation of Rejuve’s longitudinal dataset, accelerate hypothesis generation and prioritize promising genes, pathways and potential rejuvenation interventions for downstream experimental validation and platform development.

Gordon Ma, MD, PhD

Founder and CEO

Dr. Gordon Ma is a geneticist, stem cell biologist, and biotech founder with over 20 years of experience in epigenetics, gene regulation, and rejuvenation biology. His PhD work produced the first evidence of CDH1 promoter methylation in precancerous tissue—a foundational contribution to modern epigenetics. He completed postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado, where he studied XIST-mediated epigenetic regulation.
At the NIH (NHLBI), Dr. Ma conducted research in embryonic stem cell differentiation and cardiovascular regenerative biology and made key findings on mitochondrial regulation of pluripotency. He later founded several life science companies while continuing NIH research as a special volunteer for nearly a decade.
As Founder and CEO of Rejuve Therapeutics, Dr. Ma is the principal inventor of a patented method demonstrating gene-driven rejuvenation without dedifferentiation. His ongoing work includes large-scale single-cell sequencing studies and the development of the first Longitudinal Human Aging and Rejuvenation Gene Expression Atlas. He is collaborating closely with AI scientists on transfer learning and biological foundation models to identify key regulatory genes driving aging and rejuvenation and to develop clinically viable rejuvenation gene cocktails