About the Authors

Gerhard Wess

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Gerd Wallukat

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Berlin Cures GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Anna Fritscher

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Niels-Peter Becker

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Berlin Cures GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Katrin Wenzel

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Berlin Cures GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Johannes Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Berlin Cures GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Ingolf Schimke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

schimke@berlincures.de

Affiliation Berlin Cures GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The authors declare that the study was not funded by any public, commercial or private funds. Gerd Wallukat, Niels-Peter Becker, Katrin Wenzel, Johannes Müller and Ingolf Schimke as employees and shareholder (GW, JM, IS) of Berlin Cures GmbH declare that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Berlin Cures GmbH only provided support in the form of salaries and research materials but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection, analysis and statistical evaluation, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Anna Fritscher and Gerhard Wess declare that they have no conflict of interest. Berlin Cures GmbH, a spin-off company, founded in September 2014 for the commercial exploitation of patents held by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max-Delbrück-Center Berlin, Germany.