
John Dimos, Ph.D.
Alexandria Venture Investments
John Dimos is a Principal of Science & Technology at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and Alexandria Venture Investments and the Head of Alexandria LaunchLabs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He oversees the proprietary platform’s general management, the recruitment and support of its member companies, and the development of its entrepreneurial community, as well as supports Alexandria’s ecosystem-building, business development, and venture activities in the Bay Area. Prior to joining Alexandria in 2020,
Dr. Dimos was CEO at Fountain Therapeutics, a company that uses a deep learning-based platform for
the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for diseases associated with aging. Previously, he
helped launch Mavericks Capital (an investment bank for early-stage life science companies developing
new products in biotech, biopharma, medical devices, and digital health), led U.S. operations for a
revenue-generating company that uses DNA sequencing and machine learning to predict disease risk
and develop mitigation strategies in agriculture, and was a founding scientist at iPierian. Dr. Dimos has
a BS from Tufts University and a PhD from Princeton University and completed a fellowship at Harvard
University.