About the Authors

Colleen L. Doçi

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen L. Doçi, Constantinos M. Mikelis

cdoci@marian.edu

Affiliation College of Arts and Sciences, Marian University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Constantinos M. Mikelis

Contributed equally to this work with: Colleen L. Doçi, Constantinos M. Mikelis

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Juan Luis Callejas-Valera

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karina K. Hansen

Affiliation Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alfredo A. Molinolo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Asuka Inoue

Affiliations Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

Stefan Offermanns

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

J. Silvio Gutkind

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CLD CMM JSG. Formal analysis: CLD CMM. Funding acquisition: CLD JSG. Investigation: CLD CMM JLCV KKH AAM. Methodology: CLD CMM AAM AI SO. Project administration: CLD CMM JSG. Resources: JSG AI SO. Supervision: JSG. Validation: CLD CMM JLCV KKH. Visualization: CLD CMM JSG. Writing – original draft: CLD CMM. Writing – review & editing: CLD CMM JLCV JSG.