About the Authors

Stefan Just

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Just, Bertrand L. Chenard

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Bertrand L. Chenard

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Just, Bertrand L. Chenard

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Angelo Ceci

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

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Timothy Strassmaier

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jayhong A. Chong

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathaniel T. Blair

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Randall J. Gallaschun

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donato del Camino

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Cantin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc D’Amours

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Eickmeier

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Christopher M. Fanger

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carsten Hecker

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

David P. Hessler

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bastian Hengerer

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Katja S. Kroker

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

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Sam Malekiani

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Mihalek

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph McLaughlin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Georg Rast

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

JoAnn Witek

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

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Achim Sauer

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

Affiliation Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany

Christopher R. Pryce

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

Affiliation Preclinical Laboratory for Translational Research into Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Magdalene M. Moran

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

mmoran@hydrabiosciences.com

Affiliation Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Nathaniel Blair, Susan Cantin, Bertrand L. Chenard, Jayhong Chong, Marc D’Amours, Donato del Camino, Christopher Fanger, Randall Gallaschun, David Hessler, Robert Mihalek, Magdalene Moran, Timothy Strassmaier, and JoAnn Witek are all current or former employees of Hydra Biosciences, a biotech company that focuses on novel ion channels. They all were offered the opportunity to participate in the employee stock program. Bertrand L. Chenard, Randall Gallaschun, Jayhong Chong, Timothy Strassmaier and Magdalene Moran are all inventors on patent filings related to TRPC4 and TRPC5. Stefan Just, Angelo Ceci, Christian Eickmeier, Carsten Hecker, Bastian Hengerer, Katja S. Kroker, George Rast, and Achim Sauer are full time employees of the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. Christopher R. Pryce has collaborated with Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier and currently collaborates with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing materials and data sharing.