About the Authors

Sandipan Chatterjee

Current address: 3-V Biosciences, Schlieren, Switzerland

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph D. Szustakowski

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nirmala R. Nanguneri

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Craig Mickanin

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark A. Labow

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Axel Nohturfft

Affiliation Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

Kumlesh K. Dev

devk@tcd.ie (KKD); rajeev.sivasankaran@novartis.com (RS)

Current address: Molecular Neuropharmacology, Department of Physiology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Rajeev Sivasankaran

devk@tcd.ie (KKD); rajeev.sivasankaran@novartis.com (RS)

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have a patent filed relating to some of the material that is presented in the manuscript: (WO/2007/141346) GENES REGULATING INTRACELLULAR CHOLESTEROL TRAFFICKING AS TARGETS FOR TREATMENT OF CHOLESTEROL-RELATED DISEASES. SC, JDS, NRM, CM, MAL and RS are employed by Novartis.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC AN KD RS. Performed the experiments: SC. Analyzed the data: SC KD RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN. Wrote the paper: SC RS. Conceived and performed the GSEA analysis: JS NN. Provided high throughput screening expertise: CM ML.