We envision a future where people stay healthy for life.
Rejuvenate Biomed is a Belgian clinical-stage biomedical company founded in 2017 by Ann Beliën, PhD, after nearly two decades of experience with Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. In six years, she has built a team of fourteen well-experienced drug development experts, enthusiastically engaged to make a difference in the longevity field. Rejuvenate Biomed's team has made exceptional progress by maturing the business to a clinical-stage company. By using its proprietary platforms, AI driven CombinAgeTM and in vivo C. elegans CelegAgeTM, Rejuvenate Biomed is generating multiple assets in the drug development pipeline, with lead RJx-01 currently in clinical Phase 1b.
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July 2023
Introduction of CelegAge
Proprietary and validated in vivo C. elegans drug discovery platform
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May 2023
Team expands to 14 innovators
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March 2023
Introduction of CombinAge
Proprietary and validated AI-enabled in silico drug discovery platform
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May 2022
Ajit Shetty, PhD, appointed as Chair of the Board of Directors
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April 2022
Move to new office and lab at Health Campus, Diepenbeek
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March 2022
First clinical trial with RJx-01 initiated
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October 2021
€ 15.7 million Series B financing round secured
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March 2021
€ 3.2 million Series A financing round secured
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August 2019
€ 1.16 million non-dilutive VLAIO funding
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February 2019
Key research collaboration with Marco Sandri, MD, PhD
Professor at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine
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January 2019
Key research collaboration with Rafael de Cabo, MD, PhD
Professor at the NIA's Translational Gerontology Branch
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August 2018
€ 460,000 non-dilutive VLAIO funding
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November 2017
Seed investment in place
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October 2017
Rejuvenate Biomed was founded