About the Authors

Joshua E. Pagán-Busigó

Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua E. Pagán-Busigó, Jonathan López-Carrasquillo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Jonathan López-Carrasquillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua E. Pagán-Busigó, Jonathan López-Carrasquillo

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

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Caroline B. Appleyard

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Sur180 Therapeutics, LLC, McAllen, Texas, United States of America

Annelyn Torres-Reverón

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

annelyn.torres@gmail.com, atr.sur180tx@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Basic Sciences, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce Research Institute, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Sur180 Therapeutics, LLC, McAllen, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: ATR and CBA are co-founders of Sur180 Therapeutics, LLC. However, Sur 180 Therapeutics did not provide funding for the current study. ATR and CBA are named as co-inventors in the patent US-10,729,693 entitled, “Compositions and methods for the treatment of endometriosis”. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.