About the Authors

Christan M. Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Christan M. Thomas, Robert C. Wood III, Jarrett E. Wyatt

Affiliation Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert C. Wood III

Contributed equally to this work with: Christan M. Thomas, Robert C. Wood III, Jarrett E. Wyatt

Affiliation Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Jarrett E. Wyatt

Contributed equally to this work with: Christan M. Thomas, Robert C. Wood III, Jarrett E. Wyatt

Affiliation Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Morgan H. Pendleton

Affiliation Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Ruben D. Torrenegra

Affiliation Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, Bogota, Colombia

Oscar E. Rodriguez

Affiliation Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, Bogota, Colombia

Sam Harirforoosh

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Maria Ballester

Affiliation Division of Math Science and Technology, Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

Janet Lightner

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, James Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Koyamangalath Krishnan

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, James Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Victoria P. Ramsauer

ramsauer@mail.etsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, James Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VPR CMT JEW RCW MHP KK OER RDT MB. Performed the experiments: VPR CMT JEW RCW MHP OER RDT MB JL. Analyzed the data: VPR CMT JEW RCW KK OER RDT MB SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VPR KK OER RDT MB SH. Wrote the paper: VPR CMT RCW JEW SH MB RDT.