About the Authors

Sanjeev Mahanta

Affiliation Minerva Biotechnologies, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shawn P. Fessler

Affiliation Minerva Biotechnologies, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jaehong Park

Affiliation Minerva Biotechnologies, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cynthia Bamdad

cbamdad@minervabio.com

Affiliation Minerva Biotechnologies, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of a biotech company and participate in a stock option plan.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB SM SF JP. Performed the experiments: SM SF JP. Analyzed the data: CB SM SF JP. Wrote the paper: CB. Other: Group Leader on project: SM. Lead inventor of nanoparticle technology used in some of the studies: CB.