About the Authors

Alexandra G. Fraga

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra G. Fraga, Gabriela Trigo

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

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Gabriela Trigo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra G. Fraga, Gabriela Trigo

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

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal, Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Ramya K. Murthy

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Foundation for Neglected Disease Research, Bangalore, India

Affiliation GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Shamim Akhtar

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: DYP college of ACS, Pimpari, Pune India

Affiliation GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Madhavi Hebbur

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Ana Rita Pacheco

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Juan Dominguez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Rita Silva-Gomes

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Carine M. Gonçalves

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Hugo Oliveira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

António G. Castro

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

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Umender Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Joana Azeredo

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

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Jorge Pedrosa

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

jpedrosa@med.uminho.pt

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Competing Interests

I declare that the authors Ramya K. Murthy, Shamim Akhtar, Madhavi Hebbur, and Umender Sharma (in CC), affiliated to GangaGen Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd, have no competing financial, professional, or personal interests that might have influenced the performance or presentation of the work described in the manuscript.