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Unlocking LIpid Biology.
Building Precision MEdicines.

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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.

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Leadership

Leadership

Team

Scientific and Chemistry Advisory Board

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Daniel Heller, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center

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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

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Tuomas Tammela, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Cancer Center

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Xuejun Jiang, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Cancer Center

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Francis Tavares, PhD

ChemoGenics BioPharma

Business Advisors

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Jeff Hatfield, MBA

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

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Ashley Zehnder, DVM, PhD

Co-Founder and CEO, Fauna Bio

Team
SAB
Biz Advisors
Technology

Technology

Creating Lipid-Altering Therapeutics

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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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202660/

Our Supporters

Thank you to those supporting our efforts to develop life-changing therapeutics (partial list):

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Case Western Reserve University

Alumni Venture Fund

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Little Green Bamboo

Invest together. Grow together.

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Kent Johnson, MBA

Former CFO, BioLegend

Inaki Berenguer, PhD, MBA

Life Extension Ventures

Our Supporters

Careers

We do not have any openings at the moment.

Careers
Contact

Contact

Headquarters

Ford Center Incubator

1230 York Avenue

New York, NY 10065

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