About the Authors

Fotios Loupakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Fotios Loupakis, Chiara Cremolini

fotiosloupakis@gmail.com

Affiliations University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Chiara Cremolini

Contributed equally to this work with: Fotios Loupakis, Chiara Cremolini

Affiliation Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Dongyun Yang

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Lisa Salvatore

Affiliation Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Wu Zhang

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Takeru Wakatsuki

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Pierre Bohanes

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marta Schirripa

Affiliation Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Leonor Benhaim

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sara Lonardi

Affiliation Unit of Medical Oncology 1, Oncology Institute of Veneto, Padua, Italy

Carlotta Antoniotti

Affiliation Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Giuseppe Aprile

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Udine, Udine, Italy

Francesco Graziano

Affiliation Unit of Medical Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale San Salvatore, Pesaro, Italy

Annamaria Ruzzo

Affiliation Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology “G. Fornaini”, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

Sara Lucchesi

Affiliation Unit of Medical Oncology, Azienda USL5 Pontedera, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Monica Ronzoni

Affiliation Unit of Oncology, Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Ferdinando De Vita

Affiliation Unit of Medical Oncology, Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy

Giuseppe Tonini

Affiliation Unit of Medical Oncology, University Campus Biomedico, Rome, Italy

Alfredo Falcone

Affiliation Polo Oncologico, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Pisa, Italy

Heinz-Josef Lenz

Affiliation University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL CC AF HJL. Performed the experiments: FL TW WZ AR PB LB. Analyzed the data: FL CC DY AF HJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL CC LS MS CA GA S. Lonardi S. Lucchesi FD FG MR GT. Wrote the paper: FL CC AF HJL.