About the Authors

Samuel K. Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel K. Lai, Ying-Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ying-Ying Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel K. Lai, Ying-Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Cone

Affiliations Department of Biophysics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Denis Wirtz

Affiliations Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Justin Hanes

hanes@jhu.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKL YYW RC JH. Performed the experiments: SKL YYW. Analyzed the data: SKL YYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW. Wrote the paper: SKL YYW RC DW JH.