About the Authors

Ana Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Carvalho, Sara K. Olson, Edgar Gutierrez

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sara K. Olson

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Carvalho, Sara K. Olson, Edgar Gutierrez

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Edgar Gutierrez

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Carvalho, Sara K. Olson, Edgar Gutierrez

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kelly Zhang

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lisa B. Noble

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Esther Zanin

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Arshad Desai

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex Groisman

koegema@ucsd.edu (KO); agroisman@ucsd.edu (AG)

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karen Oegema

koegema@ucsd.edu (KO); agroisman@ucsd.edu (AG)

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC SO EG AG KO. Performed the experiments: AC SO EG KZ LN EZ. Analyzed the data: AC SO EG AG KO. Wrote the paper: AC SO AD AG KO. Performed screen to identify permeability genes: SO KZ LN. Optimized perm-1 RNAi: AC SO EZ. Performed drug delivery experiments: AC. Designed microdevice: EG AG. Built microdevices: EG.