About the Authors

Kristina R. Kesely

Affiliations Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, United States of America, Purdue Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, United States of America

Antonella Pantaleo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Francesco M. Turrini

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Peter Olupot-Olupot

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics/Research Unit, Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Uganda

Philip S. Low

plow@purdue.edu

Affiliations Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, United States of America, Purdue Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KRK AP FT PSL. Formal analysis: KRK AP. Funding acquisition: PSL. Investigation: KRK AP FT. Methodology: KRK AP FT PSL. Project administration: KRK AP FT PO. Resources: AP FT PO PSL. Supervision: FT PO PSL. Validation: KRK AP PSL. Writing – original draft: KRK PSL. Writing – review & editing: KRK PSL.