On June 15, 2026 Sensei Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNSE) reported that it has changed its corporate name to Faeth Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company"). The Company’s common stock is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the new ticker symbol "FTH" on June 16, 2026, and the Company has launched a new corporate website at www.faeththerapeutics.com.
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On June 10, 2026, stockholders approved the conversion of the Company’s Series B preferred stock issued in connection with the February 2026 acquisition of Faeth Therapeutics and concurrent private placement. As a result, outstanding shares of the Company’s Series B convertible preferred stock will automatically convert into common stock effective at 5:00 p.m. ET on June 15, 2026, subject to certain beneficial ownership limitations set by each holder. The Company received approximately $200 million in gross proceeds from the private placement that closed concurrently with its February 2026 acquisition of Faeth.
"Starting tomorrow, we will begin trading on Nasdaq under our new name and ticker as a well-capitalized public company backed by a syndicate of leading life sciences investors, and focused on a clear set of clinical catalysts," said Anand Parikh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "For two decades, drugs that block a single node of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway have been undone by the tumor’s ability to route around them. PIKTOR represents our answer to this challenge: an all-oral regimen that patients can take at home, designed to inhibit PI3K-alpha, mTORC1 and mTORC2 at once, close the routes tumors may use to escape, and potentially drive deeper, more durable suppression, with the potential for a best-in-class profile. We believe we now have the capital and the team to put that approach to the test, beginning with topline Phase 2 data in advanced endometrial cancer, expected in the second half of this year, and interim Phase 1b/2 data in HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer, expected in 2027."
Leadership and Board
Effective June 12, 2026, the Company appointed a new executive leadership team. Anand Parikh, a co-founder of Faeth who has led the company since its founding in 2019, has been appointed Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Brian Stephenson, Ph.D., CFA, who previously served as the Company’s Head of Operations and Finance and as Chief Financial Officer of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc., has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Oliver Maddocks, Ph.D., a co-founder of Faeth and a cancer-metabolism researcher, serves as Chief Scientific Officer, and Debbie Chirnomas, M.D., M.P.H., serves as Chief Medical Officer.
The Company’s board of directors consists of five members: Anand Parikh (Chair); Bob Holmen; Phillip B. Donenberg; Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.; and Saira Ramasastry. Dr. Hahn, the 24th Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a former Faeth director, and Ms. Ramasastry, a life sciences strategic advisor and experienced public-company director, joined the board on June 12, 2026.
"In a career spent in oncology and at the FDA, I’ve learned how rarely a program pairs a high-prevalence target with a potentially differentiated mechanism," said Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., the 24th Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a member of the Company’s board of directors. "I believe Faeth’s multi-node, all-oral approach to the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is scientifically rigorous and aimed at a real unmet need. I’m looking forward to guiding the company through this next stage of clinical development."
About PIKTOR
PIKTOR is an investigational, proprietary, all-oral combination of serabelisib, a selective PI3K-alpha inhibitor, and sapanisertib, an mTORC1/mTORC2 inhibitor, designed to inhibit multiple nodes of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. According to published literature, this pathway is dysregulated in up to 50% of all solid tumors, making it one of the most prevalent therapeutic targets in oncology. PIKTOR is being evaluated in a Phase 2 trial in second-line advanced endometrial cancer (Study FTH-PIK-201), with topline data anticipated in the second half of 2026, and in a Phase 1b/2 trial in HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer (Study FTH-PIK-101), in which the first patient was dosed in April 2026 and interim data is anticipated in 2027.
(Press release, Faeth Therapeutics, JUN 15, 2026, View Source [SID1234668737])