About the Authors

Ruchi Bansal

R.Bansal@utwente.nl

Affiliations Department of Controlled Drug Delivery (Targeted Therapeutics), MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Jai Prakash

Affiliations Department of Controlled Drug Delivery (Targeted Therapeutics), MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Marieke De Ruiter

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Klaas Poelstra

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

KP is scientific advisor and shareholder of BiOrion Technologies B.V., a company dedicated to the commercialization of drug carriers, including the carrier presented here. 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: RB JP KP. Performed the experiments: RB MDR. Analyzed the data: RB JP. Wrote the paper: RB JP KP.