About the Authors

Ann H. Klopp

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann H. Klopp, Lara Lacerda

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lara Lacerda

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann H. Klopp, Lara Lacerda

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, iMed.UL, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Department of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anshul Gupta

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bisrat G. Debeb

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Travis Solley

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Li Li

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Erika Spaeth

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Xu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaomei Zhang

Affiliation Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael T. Lewis

Affiliation Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

James M. Reuben

Affiliation Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Savitri Krishnamurthy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mauro Ferrari

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rogério Gaspar

Affiliation iMed.UL, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Thomas A. Buchholz

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Massimo Cristofanilli

Affiliation Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Frank Marini

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael Andreeff

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wendy A. Woodward

wwoodward@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK LL WAW. Performed the experiments: LL AG TS LL ELS. Analyzed the data: AK LL BGD WX SK WAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BGD XZ ML JMR SK MC FM MA. Wrote the paper: AK LL BGD WAW. Financial support: MF RG TAB MC WAW.