Structure–activity relationships of GPX4 inhibitor warheads
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Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: S.L.S. serves on the Board of Directors of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (“GNF”); is a shareholder and serves on the Board of Directors of Jnana Therapeutics; is a shareholder of Forma Therapeutics; is a shareholder and advises Kojin Therapeutics, Kisbee Therapeutics, Decibel Therapeutics and Eikonizo Therapeutics; serves on the
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01GM038627 and R35GM127045). We thank Bogdan Budnik and Renee Robinson of the Harvard Center for Mass Spectrometry for assistance with proteomics.
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