About the Authors

Ola Awad

Contributed equally to this work with: Ola Awad, Jason T. Yustein, Preeti Shah

Current address: Department of Histology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jason T. Yustein

Contributed equally to this work with: Ola Awad, Jason T. Yustein, Preeti Shah

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Preeti Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Ola Awad, Jason T. Yustein, Preeti Shah

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Naheed Gul

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Varalakshmi Katuri

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alison O'Neill

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yali Kong

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Milton L. Brown

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Jeffrey A. Toretsky

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

David M. Loeb

loebda@jhmi.edu

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA JY JT DL. Performed the experiments: OA JY PS NG VK ABO. Analyzed the data: OA JY PS VK JT DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK MLB. Wrote the paper: OA JY VK JT DL.