
Sid Mukherjee, Lew Cantley behind new cancer biotech with food+drug combo treatment ambitions
Famed oncologist Sid Mukherjee and repeat biotech co-founder Lew Cantley have teamed up to form Faeth Therapeutics, a startup aiming to treat cancer the way other conditions are addressed: pairing nutrition with therapeutics.
The goal is to transform cancer treatment with nutrition and make it the fourth “pillar” in the oncology regimen, which to date has centered on radiotherapy, surgery and drugs, Faeth CEO Anand Parikh told Endpoints News. Other conditions have already been addressed with a side of nutrients or diet, he said, pointing to diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and other diseases.
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