About the Authors

Valentina Gatta

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Biljana Petrovic

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

gabriella.campadelli@unibo.it

Affiliation Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Competing Interests

GCF owns 3% of shares from NousCom, a newly founded company dedicated to the development of retargeted oncolytic HSVs. The Authors declare no other competing interest. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCF VG. Performed the experiments: VG BP. Analyzed the data: GCF VG BP. Wrote the paper: GCF.