About the Authors
- Shirley O’Dea
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* E-mail: sodea@avectas.com
Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Valeria Annibaldi
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Louise Gallagher
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Joanne Mulholland
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Emer L. Molloy
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Conor J. Breen
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Jennifer L. Gilbert
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Darren S. Martin
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Michael Maguire
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Affiliation Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- Fitz-Roy Curry
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Affiliations Avectas Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors SOD, VA, LG, JM, EM, CB, JG, DM, MM are current or past employees of Avectas Ltd. FC was a paid Consultant for Avectas Ltd. SOD and MM are co-founders and Board members of Avectas Ltd. and have shares in Avectas Ltd. Avectas Ltd. is developing and intends to commercialise technology based in part on the work described in this manuscript. Avectas Ltd. has filed patents applications PCT/US2015/057247: ‘Delivery across cell plasma membranes’ and 62/273,284: ‘Vector-Free Delivery of Gene Editing Proteins to Cells and Tissues’. This declaration does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies regarding sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: SOD MM. Data curation: SOD. Formal analysis: DM. Funding acquisition: MM SOD. Investigation: VA LG JM EM CB JG. Methodology: SOD VA CB DM FC. Project administration: SOD. Supervision: SOD FC. Validation: VA LG JM. Visualization: DM. Writing – original draft: SOD FC. Writing – review & editing: SOD DM EM VA FC.