About the Authors

Melissa A. Fulham

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pranoti Mandrekar

Pranoti.Mandrekar@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PM. Formal analysis: MAF. Funding acquisition: PM. Investigation: MAF. Methodology: PM MAF. Project administration: PM. Resources: PM. Supervision: PM. Validation: PM MAF. Visualization: MAF. Writing – original draft: MAF. Writing – review & editing: PM MAF.