About the Authors

Vivian L. Weiss

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Immunology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Timothy H. Lee

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hong Song

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Theodore S. Kouo

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Immunology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chelsea M. Black

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

George Sgouros

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Jaffee

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Immunology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Graduate Program in Pharmacology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Skip Viragh Pancreatic Cancer Center, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Todd D. Armstrong

tarmstro@jhmi.edu

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work involves a GMCSF-secreting vaccine. Through a licensing agreement with BioSante, Johns Hopkins has the potential to receive royalties in the future. None of the authors of this paper have financial interests in this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VLW THL HS GS EMJ TDA. Performed the experiments: VLW THL HS TDA TSK CMB. Analyzed the data: VLW THL TDA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS GS. Wrote the paper: VLW TDA EMJ.