About the Authors

Motokazu Ito

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shigeo Ohba

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karin Gaensler

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sabrina M. Ronen

Affiliations Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Joydeep Mukherjee

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Russell O. Pieper

rpieper@cc.ucsf.edu.

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI SO KG SR JM RP. Performed the experiments: MI SO JM KG. Analyzed the data: MI RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG SR. Wrote the paper: MI JM RP.