About the Authors
- Carol Hoffman
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, United States of America
- Sung-Hyun Park
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, United States of America
- Eleen Daley
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Current address: Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School Of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Pathology, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America
- Claire Emson
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Current address: KineMed Incorporated, Emeryville, California, United States of America
Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories (formerly Schering Plough Biopharma), Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Jennifer Louten
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Current address: Department of Biology and Chemistry, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories (formerly Schering Plough Biopharma), Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Maureen Sisco
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, United States of America
- Rene de Waal Malefyt
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Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories (formerly Schering Plough Biopharma), Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Gabriele Grunig
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* E-mail: gabriele.grunig@nyumc.org
Affiliations Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following competing interests: RdWM is employed by Merck Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, formerly Schering Plough Biopharma, formerly DNAX Research Institute. CE and JL were employed by Schering Plough Biopharma while being members of RdWM's research group. In the future, patents and products might be developed. 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. The other authors have no conflicting financial interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GG. Performed the experiments: GG CH S-HP ED MS JL. Analyzed the data: GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RdWM CE JL GG. Wrote the paper: GG. Edited manuscript: RdWM S-HP CE JL MS CH GG. Updated RdWM on design: GG. Updated RdWM S-HP CE JL on data analysis: GG.