About the Authors

Frank W. King

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Sylvia Fong

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Chandi Griffin

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Mark Shoemaker

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Rick Staub

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Yan-Ling Zhang

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Isaac Cohen

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Emma Shtivelman

emmas@bionovo.com

Affiliation BioNovo Inc, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare a financial competing interest. The authors acknowledge that they are paid employees and stock holders of BioNovo, Inc, and that this study, in its entirety, was supported by funds from BioNovo.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FWK SF ES. Performed the experiments: FWK SF CG MS RS YLZ ES. Analyzed the data: FWK SF IC ES. Wrote the paper: ES.