About the Authors

Ashkan Emadi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley E. Ross

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen M. Cowan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yolanda M. Fortenberry

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Milena Vuica-Ross

mvuica@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Ashkan Emadi owns a patent on the synthesis of the drugs studied (Inventors: Stagliano; Kenneth William, Emadi; Ashkan, Assignee: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL). Anti-Retroviral Multi-Quinone Compounds and Regiospecific Synthesis Thereof. United States Patent and Trademark Office; Filed November 6, 2002; Application number: 10/288,685; U.S. Field of Search: 549/297,296,293 552/389,390,391 514/454,685; International Class: C07D 307/77; A61K 031/122; A61K 031/35; C07C 050/04. The United States Letters Patent Number 6,828,347 was issued on December 07, 2004 on behalf of Illinois Institute of Technology. Authors declare that this patent has not generated any financial benefit. All authors are currently employed by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. This patent does not affect the authors' adherence to PLoS ONE policy on sharing data and materials. The authors agree to make freely available any materials and information described in this publication that are reasonably requested by others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVR. Performed the experiments: AE MVR. Analyzed the data: AE AER KMC MVR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE YMF MVR. Wrote the paper: AER MVR.