About the Authors

Udi Gluschnaider

Affiliation Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Guy Hidas

Affiliations Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Urology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Gady Cojocaru

Affiliation Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Vladimir Yutkin

Affiliations Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Urology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Yinon Ben-Neriah

Affiliation Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Eli Pikarsky

peli@hadassah.org.il

Affiliation Department of Pathology and the Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UG EP. Performed the experiments: UG. Analyzed the data: UG EP. Wrote the paper: UG EP. Patient samples and data collection, immunohistochemistry: GH. Bioinformatics analysis: GC. Animal surgery technical support: VY. Conceived the rationale and hypothesis: YB-N.