About the Authors

Marike Marjolijn van Beuge

m.m.van.beuge@rug.nl

Current address: Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, Division of Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Jai Prakash

Current address: Department of Targeted Therapeutics, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Marie Lacombe

Affiliation Kreatech Diagnostics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eduard Post

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Catharina Reker-Smit

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Leonie Beljaars

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Klaas Poelstra

Affiliation Department of Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

KP is scientific advisor and shareholder (<5%) of BiOrion Technologies B.V., a company dedicated to the commercialization of drug carriers, including the carrier presented here. ML is an employee of Kreatech Diagnostics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMVB JP LB KP. Performed the experiments: MMVB ML EP CRS. Analyzed the data: MMVB JP LB KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP ML. Wrote the paper: MMVB JP KP.