About the Authors

Valerie Treyer

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

Valerie.treyer@usz.ch

Affiliations Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Rafael S. Meyer

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Andreas Buchmann

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Giovanni A. G. Crameri

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Sandro Studer

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Antje Saake

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Esmeralda Gruber

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

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Paul G. Unschuld

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Psychogeriatric Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliations Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Hospital for Psychogeriatric Medicine, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Roger M. Nitsch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Neurimmune, Schlieren-Zurich, Switzerland

Christoph Hock

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Neurimmune, Schlieren-Zurich, Switzerland

Anton F. Gietl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Valerie Treyer, Rafael S. Meyer, Andreas Buchmann, Giovanni A. G. Crameri, Sandro Studer, Antje Saake, Esmeralda Gruber, Paul G. Unschuld and Anton F. Gietl have nothing to disclose with respect to this publication. Since August 2018, Christoph Hock has assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer at Neurimmune AG, Schlieren, a spin-out of the University of Zurich, and Roger Nitsch has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Neurimmune AG. Both Christoph Hock and Roger Nitsch are co-founders and board members of Neurimmune AG. Neurimmune AG develops therapeutic strategies against Alzheimer’s disease. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.