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Reinventing Flexion For The World Beyond Proof-Of-Concept

Flexion Therapeutics had the pedigree, determination, and corporate connections to source and speed to clinical proof-of-concept its in-licensed pharma assets, and it planned to build a business around getting paid to do so. But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank.

If you build it, they will come. And if you can build it faster and cheaper, well, the pharmaceutical world will beat a path to your laboratory door, pay you handsomely for your efforts, and everyone walks away happy.

Or so thought the founders of Flexion Therapeutics Inc., who institutionalized rapid and inexpensive to-proof-of-concept drug development at Eli Lilly & Co. and struck out on their own...

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