Pfizer cans early-stage trials for cancer, sickle cell targets

As Pfizer posts its full-year financials today, as usual it’s also sneaked in several dropped projects from its pipeline.

A few years back, Pfizer pretty much canned its entire neuro pipeline, but today the ax isn’t quite so red with blood. There’s a load of trials with its Merck-partnered Bavencio cancer drug that have been felled, but just two experimental trials: PF-06688992 in phase 1 for cancer and PF-04447943, also in phase 1 but for sickle cell anemia.