About the Authors

David A. Proia

DProia@syntapharma.com

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin P. Foley

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tim Korbut

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jim Sang

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Don Smith

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard C. Bates

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuan Liu

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alex F. Rosenberg

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan Zhou

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keizo Koya

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Barsoum

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald K. Blackman

Affiliation Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are or were employees of Synta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and all except R.C. Bates and A.F. Rosenberg hold either stock or options in Synta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 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: DAP KPF RKB. Performed the experiments: DAP TK JS DS YL. Analyzed the data: DAP KPF AFR DZ RCB KK JB RKB. Wrote the paper: DAP RCB RKB.