About the Authors

Xuan G. Luong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xluong@aligos.com (XGL); jdeval@aligos.com (JD)

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sarah K. Stevens

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

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andreas Jekle

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tse-I Lin

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Aligos Belgium BV, Leuven, Belgium

Kusum Gupta

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

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dinah Misner

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sushmita Chanda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sucheta Mukherjee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Caroline Williams

Roles Resources

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Antitsa Stoycheva

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lawrence M. Blatt

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Leonid N. Beigelman

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Julian A. Symons

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Pierre Raboisson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Aligos Belgium BV, Leuven, Belgium

David McGowan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aligos Belgium BV, Leuven, Belgium

Koen Vandyck

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Aligos Belgium BV, Leuven, Belgium

Jerome Deval

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xluong@aligos.com (XGL); jdeval@aligos.com (JD)

Affiliation Aligos Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: XGL, SKS, AJ, KG, D. Misner, SC, SM, CW, AS, LMB, LNB, JAS, and JD are current employees of Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. TL, PR, D. McGowan, and KV are current employees of Aligos Belgium BV. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.