About the Authors
- Christopher M. O'Connor
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* E-mail: christophe.oconnor@duke.edu
Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center/Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mona Fiuzat
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center/Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Peter E. Carson
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Inder S. Anand
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Veterans Affairs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jonathan F. Plehn
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Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Stephen S. Gottlieb
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Marc A. Silver
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Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States of America
- JoAnn Lindenfeld
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Alan B. Miller
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Michel White
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Affiliation Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Ryan Walsh
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Penny Nelson
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Allen Medway
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Gordon Davis
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Affiliation ARCA biopharma, Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
- Alastair D. Robertson
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- J. David Port
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, ARCA biopharma, Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
- James Carr
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Affiliation ARCA biopharma, Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
- Guinevere A. Murphy
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Affiliation ARCA biopharma, Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
- Laura C. Lazzeroni
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral United States of America, Sciences and of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- William T. Abraham
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Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Stephen B. Liggett
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Affiliation Center for Personalized Medicine and Genomics, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
- Michael R. Bristow
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, ARCA biopharma, Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs Bristow, Carr, Murphy, and Port and Mr Davis are employees of and own stock or stock options in ARCA biopharma, Inc., which owns the rights to bucindolol. Drs Fiuzat, Liggett, Lindenfeld, and Robertson are consultants of ARCA biopharma. Also, Drs Fiuzat and Liggett own stock or stock options in ARCA biopharma. Drs O'Connor, Carson, Anand, Plehn, Gottlieb, Silver, Miller, White, Lazzeroni, and Abraham and Mr Walsh, Ms Nelson, and Mr Medway have no conflicts to report. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GD ADR JDP WTA SBL MRB. Performed the experiments: MF RW PN AM SBL. Analyzed the data: CMO PEC ISA JFP SSG MAS JL ABM MW GD ADR LCL MRB. Wrote the paper: MF GAM SBL MRB. Interpreted the data: CMO MF PEC ISA JFP SSG MAS JL ABM MW RW PN AM GD ADR JDP JC GAM LCL WTA SBL MRB. Revised the paper for important intellectual content: CMO MF PEC ISA JFP SSG MAS JL ABM MW GD ADR JDP JC GAM LCL SBL MRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, procurement of human hearts: AM.