Indevus was founded as Interneuron , a company based on intellectual property that came out of the laboratory of MIT professor Richard Wurtman .

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Interneuron's only success at this time was Wurtman's insight that Eli Lilly 's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) Prozac could be used to treat premenstrual syndromes.

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