Pioneering Extracellular
Protein Degradation
with sphingolipid biology
About Transcera
Transcera is a founder-led, venture-backed biotech company translating discoveries from the Lencer and Chinnapen labs at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital into therapeutics for patients living with chronic disease. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Our Platform
A New Class of Degraders
Transcera is pioneering a new class of therapeutics that harness natural lipid trafficking pathways to direct proteins into lysosomes for degradation. Our approach combines a proprietary lysosome-targeting lipid, tunable chemical linker, and peptide or protein binder into a compact, manufacturable molecule that can degrade diverse extracellular targets – including soluble and membrane proteins – across tissues and cell types. By enabling potent, selective, and systemic degradation, Transcera’s platform opens new possibilities for treating chronic diseases driven by aberrant extracellular biology.
Our Team
Wayne Lencer, MD
Co-Founder & SAB Chair
Hunter Goble, MBA
Co-Founder & CEO
Justin Wolfe, PhD
Co-Founder & CSO
Joanna Podkalicka, PhD
Senior Scientist
Jiaqian Li, PhD
Scientist
Artie Suckow, PhD
Board Chair
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