About the Authors

Li Shen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Michael Ciesielski

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Swathi Ramakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kiersten M. Miles

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Leigh Ellis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Paula Sotomayor

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Protul Shrikant

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Robert Fenstermaker

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Roberto Pili

Roberto.Pili@RoswellPark.org

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS MC P.Shrikant RF RP. Performed the experiments: LS MC SR KMM LE P.Sotomayor. Analyzed the data: LS MC LE P.Sotomayor RF RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF RP. Wrote the paper: LS MC RP.