Our Founders
Jamie Heywood, CEO
Jamie Heywood is a MIT-trained mechanical engineer who entered biomedicine after his brother was diagnosed with ALS in 1999. Prior to founding Alden Scientific, a digital biology company that develops advanced individual predictions to manage health, disease, and aging, Jamie founded the ALS Therapy Development Institute, PatientsLikeMe, and AOBiome, and co-founded Genetic Networks, The SocialMedwork, and iCarbonX International. His focus has been on addressing fundamental improvements in the discovery and development of treatments and management of health and disease and in empowering individuals. Jamie’s work has been profiled in The New Yorker, 60 Minutes, TEDMED, Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Wiener’s book, His Brother’s Keeper, and the Sundance award-winning documentary So Much So Fast.
Jeff Cole, COO
Jeff has over 25 years of experience as a technology and management leader in diverse areas including preclinical research, digital health, manufacturing and consumer and business platforms. He brings bioinformatics experience from his work architecting the platform at PatientsLikeMe, as well as building informatics systems for the ALS Therapy Development Institute.
Jeff has co-founded 3 companies- PatientsLikeMe, Input Factory (which was acquired by Google), and now Alden Scientific.
Jeff earned his BS and MS at MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in systems dynamics.