About the Authors

Mariantonia Logozzi

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Angelo De Milito

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Luana Lugini

Affiliation Unit of Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Martina Borghi

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Luana Calabrò

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology and Immunotherapy, Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Siena, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Siena, Italy

Massimo Spada

Affiliation Unit of Experimental Immunotherapy, Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Maurizio Perdicchio

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Maria Lucia Marino

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Cristina Federici

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Elisabetta Iessi

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Daria Brambilla

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Giulietta Venturi

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Francesco Lozupone

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Mario Santinami

Affiliation Unit of Melanoma and Sarcoma, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Veronica Huber

Affiliation Unit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumours, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Michele Maio

Affiliations Division of Medical Oncology and Immunotherapy, Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Siena, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Siena, Italy, Unit of Cancer Bioimmunotherapy, Department of Medical Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico IRCCS, Aviano, Italy

Licia Rivoltini

Affiliation Unit of Immunotherapy of Human Tumours, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Stefano Fais

stefano.fais@iss.it

Affiliation Unit of Antitumor Drugs, Department of Therapeutic Research and Medicines Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

Stefano Fais and Mariantonia Logozzi deposited the patent #US 12/321,412; PCT/EE2009/000001 for the ExoTest described in this work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML ADM LL MP SF. Performed the experiments: ML LL MB MS MP CF DB GV. Analyzed the data: ML ADM LL LC CF EI MS MM LR SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML LL MB LC MLM EI GV FL MS VH MM LR. Wrote the paper: ML ADM LL LC EI DB FL MS VH MM LR SF.