About the Authors

John E. Hart

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrine Pharmaceuticals, Wilderness End, Tadley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Sharad Mohan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nematology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Keith G. Davies

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

k.davies@herts.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Ben Ferneyhough

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

Affiliation Systems Biology Laboratory UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Iain J. Clarke

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

Affiliation School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Melbourne University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

John A. Hunt

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

Affiliations Medical Technologies and Advanced Materials, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom, College of Biomedical Engineering, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Steve D. Shnyder

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

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

Christopher R. Mundy

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

Affiliation Endocrine Pharmaceuticals, Wilderness End, Tadley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

David R. Howlett

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wolfson Centre for Age Related Disease. King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Russell P. Newton

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biochemistry Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

JEH is founding scientist of Endocrine Pharmaceuticals of Hampshire, UK (Company No: 03005721) and an employee of the company. The following authors hold share options in Endocrine: KGD, IJC, JAH, CRM, DRH & RPN. Endocrine has applied for a patent relating to material pertinent to the present article: Hart JE (2021) Hormonal Derivatives. GB Patent Application No. 2112385.6. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.