About the Authors

Matthew D. Marsden

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian A. Loy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xiaomeng Wu

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christina M. Ramirez

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Adam J. Schrier

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Danielle Murray

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Akira Shimizu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Steven M. Ryckbosch

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Katherine E. Near

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Tae-Wook Chun

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

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Paul A. Wender

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jzack@ucla.edu (JAZ); wenderp@stanford.edu (PAW)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jerome A. Zack

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jzack@ucla.edu (JAZ); wenderp@stanford.edu (PAW)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of the manuscript have the following competing interests: Neurotrope Biosciences and BryoLogyx have licensed some of this technology from Stanford University (P.A.W.), the former for the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and the latter for use in HIV/AIDS eradication and cancer immunotherapy. P.A.W is a consultant to both companies and a co-founder of BryoLogyx.