About the Authors

Usha Panchapakesan

usha.panchapakesan@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Kate Pegg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Simon Gross

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Muralikrishna Gangadharan Komala

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Harshini Mudaliar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Josephine Forbes

Affiliation Glycation and Diabetes Research Group, Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane Qld, Australia

Carol Pollock

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Amanda Mather

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Renal Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

Boehringer Ingelheim provided the Empagliflozin and funding but had no role in the study design, data analysis and data interpretation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Critical review of manuscript: AM JF CP. Conceived and designed the experiments: UP JF AM CP. Performed the experiments: UP KP SG MG HM. Analyzed the data: UP AM CP JF. Wrote the paper: UP.