About the Authors

Andreas Draube

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Draube, Nela Klein-González

Affiliation Laboratory for Tumor and Transplantation Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Nela Klein-González

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Draube, Nela Klein-González

Affiliations Laboratory for Tumor and Transplantation Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Stefanie Mattheus

Affiliation Laboratory for Tumor and Transplantation Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Corinne Brillant

Affiliation Cochrane Hematological Malignancies Group, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Martin Hellmich

Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMSIE), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Andreas Engert

Affiliation Cochrane Hematological Malignancies Group, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon

michael.bergwelt@uk-koeln.de

Affiliation Laboratory for Tumor and Transplantation Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD NKG MB. Performed the experiments: AD NKG SM CB MH MB. Analyzed the data: AD NKG SM CB MH AE MB. Wrote the paper: AD NKG SM CB MH AE MB.