About the Authors

Felix Scheuplein

FScheuplein@NKTRX.com

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Abraham Thariath

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Macdonald

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alemseged Truneh

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Mashal

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Schaub

Affiliation NKT Therapeutics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

All of the authors have an affiliation to the commercial funders of this research (NKT Therapeutics, Inc.). All authors were employees of NKT Therapeutics, 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: FS AT SM AT RS RM. Performed the experiments: FS. Analyzed the data: FS AT SM AT RS RM. Wrote the manuscript: FS AT SM AT RS RM.