About the Authors
- Patricia Ferrer
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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
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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
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Carla Cerami Hand
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Hugh Young Rienhoff Jr
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Affiliation FerroKin BioSciences, Inc., San Carlos, California, United States of America
- David J. Sullivan Jr
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* E-mail: 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.