About the Authors
- Nazneen N. Dewji
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* E-mail: ndewji@ucsd.edu
Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America, Cenna Biosciences Incorporated, 505 Coast Boulevard, Suite 302, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States of America
- S. Jonathan Singer
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Affiliations Department of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America, Cenna Biosciences Incorporated, 505 Coast Boulevard, Suite 302, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States of America
- Eliezer Masliah
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Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America
- Edward Rockenstein
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Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America
- Mihyun Kim
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America, Cenna Biosciences Incorporated, 505 Coast Boulevard, Suite 302, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States of America
- Martha Harber
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Affiliation FortéBio, Pall Corporation, 1360 Willow Rd, Suite 201, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States of America
- Taylor Horwood
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Affiliation Department of Neuroscience Imaging Core, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, United States of America
Competing Interests
NND and SJS have ownership of stocks in Cenna Biosciences Inc and are authors on patent applications filed by UCSD. One of the authors, Dr. Martha Harber, is employed by a commercial company “FortéBio, Pall Corporation”. Neither Dr. Harber nor ForteBio are employed by Cenna, are consultants for Cenna, or stand to gain financially or otherwise from this work. They are not a part of the patents or products that may be developed from this work, or part of any grants or gifts. Dr. Harber and ForteBio have no non-financial competing interests, including professional or personal. The authors have patents relating to material pertinent to this article. The details of the patents, including name and number, are as follows: Methods and compositions for treating neurodegenerative disorders and Alzheimer's disease and improving normal memory. Dewji, NN and Singer, SJ, United States Patent No. 8,129,334, Mar. 6, 2012. Methods and compositions for treating neurodegenerative disorders and Alzheimer’s disease and improving normal memory. Dewji, NN and Singer, SJ, United States Patent No. 8399478, Mar. 5, 2013.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NND EM SJS MH. Performed the experiments: NND EM ER MK MH TH. Analyzed the data: NND EM ER MK MH TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH TH. Wrote the paper: NND EM SJS MH.