About the Authors
- Adrian Schwarzer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Adrian Schwarzer, Benita Wolf
Affiliation Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Benita Wolf
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Contributed equally to this work with: Adrian Schwarzer, Benita Wolf
Affiliation Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Jan L. Fisher
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Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Thomas Schwaab
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Affiliation Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Sven Olek
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Affiliation Epiontis GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Udo Baron
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Affiliation Epiontis GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Craig R. Tomlinson
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- John D. Seigne
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Affiliation Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Nancy A. Crosby
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Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Jiang Gui
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Affiliation Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Family and Community Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Thomas H. Hampton
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Camilo E. Fadul
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Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Immunotherapy Program, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Neurology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- John A. Heaney
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Affiliation Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Marc S. Ernstoff
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* E-mail: Marc.S.Ernstoff@Hitchcock.ORG
Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Immunotherapy Program, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
Competing Interests
Sven Olek and Udo Baron work at Epiontis who did contract testing for this study under a collaborative agreement. The authors received funding from Berlex, Inc. for the clinical trial (Protocol D0238) from which patient samples reported on in this paper originated. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AS BW JLF CEF MSE. Performed the experiments: AS BW JLF SO UB CRT NAC JAH MSE. Analyzed the data: AS BW JLF TS SO UB CRT JDS NAC JG THH CEF JAH MSE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO UB CRT JG THH MSE. Wrote the paper: AS BW JLF MSE.