About the Authors

Francesca Ricci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Costanza Casiraghi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

c.casiraghi@chiesi.com

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Matteo Storti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Francesco D’Alò

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Chiara Catozzi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Roberta Ciccimarra

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Francesca Ravanetti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Antonio Cacchioli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Gino Villetti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Maurizio Civelli

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Xabi Murgia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Drug Delivery, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

Virgilio Carnielli

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Neonatology, Polytechnic University of Marche and Salesi Children’s Hospital, Ancona, Italy

Fabrizio Salomone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chiesi Farmaceutici, R&D Department, Parma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Ricci F, Casiraghi C, Storti M, D'Alò F, Catozzi C, Villetti G, Civelli M and Salomone F are employees of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., the funder of this study. Xabi Murgia served as consultant for Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A in the present work. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.