About the Authors

Chiara Parravicini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Davide Lecca

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Davide Marangon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Giusy Tindara Coppolino

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Simona Daniele

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Elisabetta Bonfanti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marta Fumagalli

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luca Raveglia

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Aptuit Srl, Verona, Italy

Claudia Martini

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Elisabetta Gianazza

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Maria Letizia Trincavelli

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Maria P. Abbracchio

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mariapia.abbracchio@unimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Ivano Eberini

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari & DSRC, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

All the compounds included in this Manuscript are protected by an international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT/EP2012/058500, Gpr17 receptor modulators) deposited on May 09th, 2012 and granted on August 6th, 2014. Inventors: Maria Pia Abbracchio, Mario Alberto Battaglia, Ivano Eberini, Marta Fumagalli, Chiara Parravicini, Cristina Sensi, Paola Zaratin This PCT has generated the following patents and national applications: Italy: granted patent - 102012902048704 (MI2012A000785), released on 2014/10/23; Italy: granted patent - 102012902048705 (MI2012A000786), released on 2014/10/23; Japan: granted patent - 2015-510655, released on 2017/01/27; USA: granted patent - 9879030, released on 2018/01/30; China: granted patent - 104428288B, released on 2018/03/13; Israel: granted patent - 235557, released on 2018/11/29; Europe: granted patent - 2850068 (B1) released on 2019/05/29; Korea: 10-2014-7034470, application discontinuation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Non-financial competing interests: Prof. Ivano Eberini is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE. I declare that one of the authors of this manuscript has a commercial affiliation: “Luca Raveglia, Aptuit Srl (Evotech Company), Via Alessandro Fleming 4, 37135 Verona, Italy”. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.