About the Authors

Rachael E. Hawtin

rhawtin@sunesis.com

Affiliation Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

David E. Stockett

Affiliation Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jo Ann W. Byl

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert S. McDowell

Affiliation 3-V Biosciences, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Nguyen Tan

Affiliation Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michelle R. Arkin

Affiliation Small Molecule Discovery Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrew Conroy

Affiliation Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wenjin Yang

Affiliation Eiger Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Neil Osheroff

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Judith A. Fox

Affiliation Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Hawtin, Stockett, Conroy and Fox are employees of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals. Tan, McDowell, Wang and Arkin are former Sunesis employees. Osheroff and Byl received research funding from Sunesis Pharmaceuticals.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REH DES RSM NT MRA WY NO JAF. Performed the experiments: DES JAB NT. Analyzed the data: REH DES JAB RSM NT AC NO JAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY NO. Wrote the paper: REH DES RSM NT AC NO JAF.