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Solace: Comfort in (pain) research

July 9, 2007 7:00 AM UTC

Unlike typical biotech startups, which are founded by scientists-turned-entrepreneurs who have already chosen the company's founding assets, Solace Pharmaceuticals Inc. was formed by PureTech Ventures with the idea to pick development programs from a broad palette of academic research on pain modulation.

Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner at PureTech, told BioCentury the first step in creating Solace was to identify a therapeutic area that was underserved but had a plethora of attractive academic projects that might represent solutions...