About the Authors

Gallen Triana-Baltzer

Affiliation CovX Research, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Adam Pavlicek

Current address: Regulus Therapeutics, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ariadne Goulart

Current address: Isis Therapeutics, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Affiliation CovX Research, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Hanhua Huang

Affiliation CovX Research, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Steven Pirie-Shepherd

Steven.Pirie-Shepherd@pfizer.com

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Nancy Levin

Affiliation CovX Research, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript declare their affiliation past or present with the commercial funder of this research Pfizer, Inc. All authors were employees of Pfizer at the time of this work and played roles in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript. S. Pirie-Shepherd is a current employee of Pfizer, Inc. This does not alter the author's adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. G. Triana-Baltzer, A. Goulart, H. Huang, and N. Levin are employees of CovX Research, Pfizer Worldwide Research Development. S. Pirie-Shephed is an employee of Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research Development. A. Pavlicek is a former employee of Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development. The Angiopoietin-2 targeting compound described here, CVX-060, is being developed by Pfizer Inc. The authors of this manuscript were or are employees of Pfizer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GTB SPS NL HH. Performed the experiments: AG GTB. Analyzed the data: AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the manuscript: GTB.