About the Authors
- Lilian Otalora
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation
Affiliations Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Efren Chavez
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation
Affiliations Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Daniel Watford
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Lissett Tueros
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis
Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Mayrin Correa
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation
Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Viji Nair
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Philip Ruiz
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Patricia Wahl
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Roles Data curation
Affiliations Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Sean Eddy
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Sebastian Martini
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Matthias Kretzler
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation
Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- George W. Burke III
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Alessia Fornoni
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: afornoni@med.miami.edu (AF); smerscher@med.miami.edu (SM)
Affiliations Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Sandra Merscher
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: afornoni@med.miami.edu (AF); smerscher@med.miami.edu (SM)
Affiliations Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Peggy and Harold Katz Family Drug Discovery Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
G.W.B., A.F., and S. Merscher. are inventors on pending or issued patents aimed to diagnose or treat proteinuric renal diseases. They stand to gain royalties from their future commercialization. A.F. is Chief Scientific Officer of L&F Health LLC and is consultant for Variant Pharmaceutical. Variant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has licensed worldwide rights to develop and commercialize hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin for treatment of kidney disease from L&F Research. A.F. is Chief Scientific Officer for LipoNexT LLC. S. Merscher holds equity interest in L&F Research. Grant funding to support the work has been received by the U Michigan in support of the work performed by M.K. from the National Institute of Health, European Union, Else Kroener Fresenius Foundation, Nephcure Kidney International, Eli Lilly and Goldfinch Bio. These funding bodies did not had influence on study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and/or decision to submit for publication. S.E. has declared stock ownership from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Johnson and Johnson and Gilead Sciences and former employment by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Johnson and Johnson. L.O., E.C., D.W., V.N., M.C., P.R., P.W., L.T. have declared no competing interests. Any of the existing conflicts do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.