About the Authors

Simone Mocellin

simone.mocellin@unipd.it

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Jeff Shrager

Affiliation Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, and CollabRx, Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Richard Scolyer

Affiliations Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Melanoma Institute Australia, Sydney, Australia, Discipline of Pathology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Sandro Pasquali

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Daunia Verdi

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Francesco M. Marincola

Affiliation Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, and Center for Human Immunology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marta Briarava

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Randy Gobbel

Affiliation Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, and CollabRx, Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Carlo Rossi

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Donato Nitti

Affiliation Clinica Chirurgica Generale 2, Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM JS RS SP DV FMM MB RG. Performed the experiments: SM JS RS SP DV FMM MB RG CRR DN. Analyzed the data: SM JS RS SP DV FMM MB RG CRR DN. Wrote the paper: SM JS RS SP DV FMM MB RG CRR DN.