
Lime Therapeutics is the lipid medicines company.
We are a fast-growing biotechnology company focused on making a difference for patients. We are using our breakthrough LipidSense™ platform to hunt for novel targets and create new drugs that modulate aberrant lipid metabolism in many forms of cancer, cardiometabolic diseases, lysosomal storage diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.
Leadership
Team
Scientific and Chemistry Advisory Board

Matthew
Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Rushika Perera, PhD
University of California,
San Francisco

Tuomas Tammela, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Xuejun Jiang, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Francis Tavares, PhD
ChemoGenics BioPharma
Business Advisor

Jeff Hatfield, MBA
Board Chair,
Vividion Therapeutics and
ROME Therapeutics
Technology
Creating Lipid-Altering Therapeutics

Lipid dysfunction is a hallmark of a broad range of diseases such as cancer, metabolic diseases, lysosomal storage diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite this, efforts to hunt for lipid-mediated targets and create novel therapies have remained elusive due to lack of technology.
We've changed the game with the invention of an ultrasensitive lipid detection technology. LipidSense is a high-throughput screening platform that monitors lysosomal lipid flux in real time in live cells, in a high-throughput screening format, and in live animals.
We can tell within seconds whether a particular therapy changes lipid flux. We are utilizing this platform to discover drugs that can alter cancer's access to lipids or restore lysosomal lipid function in metabolic diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Ultimately, we are exploring therapeutic opportunities to touch the lives of 100 million patients.
Publications
A Carbon Nanotube Optical Reporter Maps Endolysosomal Lipid Flux.
Prakrit V. Jena, Daniel Roxbury, et. al.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707631/
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An optical nanoreporter of endolysosomal lipid accumulation reveals enduring effects of diet on hepatic macrophages in vivo.
Thomas V. Galassi, Prakrit V. Jena, et. al.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6543545/
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Long-term in vivo biocompatibility of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Thomas V. Galassi, et. al., and Daniel Heller
News and Events
October 17, 2025
CTO Prakrit Jena invited to speak to Cornell University entrepreneurs
September 30, 2025
Lime Therapeutics attends NewYork BIO Innovation Summit
July 30, 2025
CEO Shardule Shah invited to speak on Twinning Strategy Podcast
July 10, 2025
Lime Therapeutics moves into new headquarters at Ford Center Incubator in The Rockefeller University
May 1, 2025
Lime Therapeutics attends Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium, meets Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna (co-inventor of CRISPR)
November 10, 2024
Lime Therapeutics welcomes Fulbright Scholar Dr. Durga Kolla to the team
Careers
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