Ann: CRO APPOINTED FOR HEPATITIS C TRIAL , page-15

absolutely! our theory was pfizer off loaded plenty of good stuff along with the slow or bad when they made their wholesale R&D cuts.

Then we saw a statement by David Suhy saying it took 9 months Tacere to convince Pfizer to let them buy back the TT-034 programme. The Pfizer staff at Sandwich UK working on the project were big believers in it and did not want to let it go.

Recently, Pfizer re-purchased a drug from a shrewd company, a drug programme that not that long ago got ditched with the R&D axing at Sandwich.