About the Authors

Antal Martinecz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Martin J. Boeree

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Lung Diseases, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Andreas H. Diacon

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, TASK Applied Science, Cape Town, South Africa

Rodney Dawson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pulmonology and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa

Colin Hemez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate program in Biophysics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rob E. Aarnoutse

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Pia Abel zur Wiesch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pzw@daad-alumni.de

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstitutt), Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

AM is currently an employee of AstraZeneca. However, the work was carried out before he was an employee of AstraZeneca. Therefore, no competing interests exist.