About the Authors

Patricia Ferrer

Affiliation The Malaria Research Institute, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Abhai K. Tripathi

Affiliation The Malaria Research Institute, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Martha A. Clark

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Carla Cerami Hand

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hugh Young Rienhoff Jr

Affiliation FerroKin BioSciences, Inc., San Carlos, California, United States of America

David J. Sullivan Jr

dsulliva@jhsph.edu

Affiliation The Malaria Research Institute, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Hugh Rienhoff is Founder, CEO, and shareholder in FerroKin BioSciences, Inc. FerroKin has licensed the patent to FBS0701. The patent holder is the University of Florida Research Foundation and the title of the patent is Desferrithiocin Polyether Analogues. The other authors do not have interests or affliations with FerroKin Biosciences or UFRF. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. FerroKin BioSciences did not provide financial support for this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF AKT MAC CCH HYR DJS. Performed the experiments: PF AKT MAC CCH DJS. Analyzed the data: PF AKT MAC CCH DJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF AKT MAC CCH DJS. Wrote the paper: PF AKT MAC CCH HYR DJS.