At Lime, we are inventing breakthrough lipid-targeting therapeutics using our novel drug discovery platform.
Lime Therapeutics is a fast-growing biotechnology company focused on making a difference for patients. We are a spinout company developing new technology invented at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and 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, metabolic diseases, lysosomal storage diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.
Leadership
Team
Scientist
Scientific and Chemistry Advisory Board
Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Matthew
Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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 Advisors
Robin Mansukhani
CEO, Deciduous Therapeutics
Jeff Hatfield, MBA
Chairman of the Board of Directors, 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.
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/
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/
Long-term in vivo biocompatibility of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Thomas V. Galassi, et. al., and Daniel Heller