About the Authors

Jinwei Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinwei Hu, Julia Y. Ljubimova

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Julia Y. Ljubimova

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinwei Hu, Julia Y. Ljubimova

ljubimovaj@cshs.org

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Satoshi Inoue

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bindu Konda

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rameshwar Patil

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hui Ding

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andres Espinoza

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kolja A. Wawrowsky

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chirag Patil

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alexander V. Ljubimov

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Keith L. Black

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYL SI AL KLB. Performed the experiments: JH JYL SI BK RP HD AE KW. Analyzed the data: JH JYL RP HD CP AL KLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH JYL SI RP HD AL. Wrote the paper: JH JYL AL KLB.