About the Authors

May Kwang-Mei Wang

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

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tao Ren

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: CAS Institute of Technology Innovation, Hefei, China

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hu Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sun-Young Lim

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kyungae Lee

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Honko

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation United States Army Medical Research institute of Infectious Disease, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Huanying Zhou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation NIAID/NIH Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Julie Dyall

Roles Data curation

Affiliation NIAID/NIH Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Lisa Hensley

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation NIAID/NIH Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley K. Gartin

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James M. Cunningham

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

jcunningham@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors Tao Ren, Kyungae Lee and James Cunningham hold patent 9676763, June 13, 2017, "Methods of Treating Ebola" that discloses the structure and function of compound 3.3.