About the Authors

H.-C. Jennifer Shen

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Asha Adem

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kris Ylaya

Affiliation Tissue Array Research Program, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Arianne Wilson

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mei He

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dominique Lorang

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen M. Hewitt

Affiliation Tissue Array Research Program, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Klaus Pechhold

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David M. Harlan

Affiliation Diabetes Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Irina A. Lubensky

Affiliation Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Laura S. Schmidt

Affiliations Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Basic Research Program, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

W. Marston Linehan

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven K. Libutti

Steven_Libutti@nih.gov

Affiliation Tumor Angiogenesis Section, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJS SL. Performed the experiments: HJS AA KY AW MH DL KP. Analyzed the data: HJS AW MH KP IAL SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJS SMH KP DMH LSS ML SL. Wrote the paper: HJS.