18 July 2018

LSIPR 50 2018: The entrepreneurial bug

Since its founding in 2000, Flagship Pioneering has set up and fostered the development of more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in $20 billion in aggregate value, more than 500 issued patents, and more than 50 clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents.

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