About the Authors
- Cheleste M. Thorpe
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: cthorpe@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Affiliations Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Anne V. Kane
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Justin Chang
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Albert Tai
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Roles Formal analysis, Resources
Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Richard J. Vickers
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Summit Therapeutics Plc, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- David R. Snydman
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America
Competing Interests
The sponsor of the study was Summit Therapeutics Plc. (http://www.summitplc.com/), who received a Wellcome Trust Translation Award (Grant Number 099444; https://wellcome.ac.uk/) in support of the study. CMT and DRS have received research grants from Summit Therapeutics Plc., Actelion (https://www1.actelion.us/us/index.page), and Merck (http://www.merck.com/index.html). CMT has been on an Advisory Board for Summit Therapeutics Plc. AVK has received research grants and a travel grant from Summit Therapeutics Plc. RJV is an employee of, and holds share options in, Summit Therapeutics. RJV was involved in study design and analysis of data as well as preparation of, and decision to publish the manuscript. JC and AT have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.