About the Authors

W. Edward C. Bradley

edward.bradley@umontreal.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

John V. Raelson

Contributed equally to this work with: John V. Raelson, Daniel Y. Dubois

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Daniel Y. Dubois

Contributed equally to this work with: John V. Raelson, Daniel Y. Dubois

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Éric Godin

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Hélène Fournier

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Charles Privé

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

René Allard

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Vadym Pinchuk

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Micheline Lapalme

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

René J. A. Paulussen

Affiliation Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Abdelmajid Belouchi

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Genizon Biosciences, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

WECB is a consultant for, and has shares in Genizon Biosciences Inc. JVR, DYB, EG, HF, CP, RA, VP, ML, RJAP and AB are employees of Genizon Biosciences. These affiliations do not alter the author's adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors: http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing. A patent application has been submitted based in part on data included in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WECB JVR AB. Performed the experiments: DD G CP. Analyzed the data: WECB JVR DD HF CP RA VP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HF. Wrote the paper: WECB DD ML. Oversaw ethics issues: ML. Oversaw project: RP AB.