
Lime Therapeutics is the lipid medicines company.
Lime Therapeutics is a fast‑growing biotechnology company focused on making a meaningful difference for patients and their families. We are creating new medicines for people with many forms of cancer, cardiometabolic diseases, lysosomal storage diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders, aiming to turn today’s most challenging conditions into manageable and ultimately curable diseases.
Leadership
Team
Scientific and Chemistry Advisory Board
Daniel Heller, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center



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 Advisors

Jeff Hatfield, MBA
Ex-CEO, Vividion (acq: Bayer) and Vitae (acq: Allergan)

Ashley Zehnder, DVM, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, Fauna Bio
Technology
Creating Lipid-Altering Therapeutics

Turning lipid biology into transformative medicines
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Lime Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing first-in-class small-molecule therapies for diseases driven by cellular stress and dysfunction. At the heart of our drug discovery is LipidSense, our proprietary platform that enables us to interrogate lipid biology at unprecedented resolution and uncover disease-driving mechanisms that can be translated into novel therapeutic approaches.
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Lime applies this discovery engine across oncology, cardiometabolic disease, and neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage disorders, where alterations in cellular lipid metabolism and stress responses play fundamental roles in disease progression, treatment resistance, and cellular dysfunction. Our approach integrates deep biological insight, quantitative lipid profiling, and small molecule drug discovery to identify and develop therapeutics against previously underexploited targets.
We are building a pipeline of oral, small molecule medicines designed to address important biological drivers of disease and deliver meaningful improvements for patients with limited treatment options.
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Our mission is to transform insights from lipid biology into differentiated medicines for diseases with significant unmet need.
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
August 25, 2026
Lime Therapeutics invited to join Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Therapeutics Accelerator
April 24, 2026
Lime Therapeutics co-founders invited to speak to The Rockefeller University Biotech Club
January 4, 2026
Lime Therapeutics presents at Biotech Showcase as part of JPMorgan Healthcare Conference
December 14, 2025
Lime Therapeutics attends NewYorkBIO Annual Holiday Gathering at New York Stock Exchange
October 17, 2025
CTO Prakrit Jena invited to speak to Cornell University entrepreneurs
Careers
We do not have any openings at the moment.






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