About the Authors

Robert Flisiak

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Medical University of Bialystock, Bialystock, Poland

Mitchell Shiffman

Affiliation Bon Secours Liver Institute of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Juan Arenas

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain

Hugo Cheinquer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Igor Nikitin

Affiliation Department of Higher Level General Medicine, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Yuping Dong

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc., Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Khurram Rana

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc., Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Subasree Srinivasan

subasree@sbcglobal.net

Affiliation Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc., Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

Grants were provided by Bristol-Myers Squib, Achillion, AbbVie, Gilead, Beckman-Colter, Beohringer-Ingelheim, Conatus, CymaBay, Galectin, Immuron, Intercept, Lumena, NGMBio. The authors of this manuscript are also employed by Bristol-Myers Squib (S. S., K. R., Y. D.).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS YD. Performed the experiments: RF MS JA HC IN. Analyzed the data: RF MS JA HC IN KR SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD KR SS. Wrote the paper: RF MS JA HC IN YD KR SS.