About the Authors

Sethu Sankaranarayanan

sethus2008@gmail.com (SS); kbrunden@upenn.edu (KB); Michael.Ahlijanian@bms.com (MA)

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Donna M. Barten

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Laurel Vana

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nino Devidze

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Ling Yang

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Gregory Cadelina

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Nina Hoque

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Lynn DeCarr

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Stefanie Keenan

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Alan Lin

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Yang Cao

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Bradley Snyder

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Bin Zhang

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Magdalena Nitla

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gregg Hirschfeld

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Nestor Barrezueta

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Craig Polson

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Paul Wes

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Vangipuram S. Rangan

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Redwood City, California, United States of America

Angela Cacace

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Charles F. Albright

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Jere Meredith Jr.

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

John Q. Trojanowski

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Virginia M-Y. Lee

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kurt R. Brunden

sethus2008@gmail.com (SS); kbrunden@upenn.edu (KB); Michael.Ahlijanian@bms.com (MA)

Affiliation Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Ahlijanian

sethus2008@gmail.com (SS); kbrunden@upenn.edu (KB); Michael.Ahlijanian@bms.com (MA)

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SS, DB, ND, LY, GC, NH, LD, SK, AL, YC, BS, GH, NB, CP, PW, VR, AC, CA, JM, MA are/were employees of Bristol-Myers Squibb, whose company partly funded this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: SS DB LV ND PW AC CA JMJ JT VL KB MA. Performed the experiments: SS LV ND LY GC NH LD SK AL YC BS BZ MN GH NB CP. Analyzed the data: SS DB LV ND LY NH LD SK AL YC BS BZ MN CP PW JMJ KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY BZ MN CP VR. Wrote the paper: SS DB LV ND LY GC NH LD AL YC BZ MN JMJ JT VL KB MA.