About the Authors

Roy Eldor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eldorroy@yahoo.com

Affiliation Diabetes Unit, Institute for Metabolism, Endocrinology and Hypertension, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Luke Norton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Marcel Fourcaudot

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Cynthia Galindo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ralph A. DeFronzo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Muhammad Abdul-Ghani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Diabetes, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

RAD has the following competing interests - Advisory Board: Astra Zeneca, Novo Nordisk, Janssen, Intarcia, Boehringer-Ingelheim; Research Support: Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Takeda, Astra Zeneca; Speaker’s Bureau: Novo-Nordisk, Astra Zeneca. Other authors have no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no restrictions in sharing data and/or materials.