About the Authors

Guerry J. Cook

Affiliation Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Hematology and Oncology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

David L. Caudell

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Section of Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Howard L. Elford

Affiliation Molecules for Health, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Timothy S. Pardee

tspardee@wakehealth.edu

Affiliations Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Hematology and Oncology, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

HLE is President and a shareholder of Molecules for Health and has a financial interest in therapeutic potential. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJC TSP. Performed the experiments: GJC. Analyzed the data: GJC TSP DLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HLE. Wrote the paper: JGC TSP.