About the Authors

Elliot L. Servais

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kei Suzuki

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Christos Colovos

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Luis Rodriguez

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Camelia Sima

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin Fleisher

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratories, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Valerie W. Rusch

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Michel Sadelain

Affiliations Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Prasad S. Adusumilli

adusumip@mskcc.org

Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELS CS MS PSA. Performed the experiments: ELS KS CS LR PSA. Analyzed the data: ELS KS CC LR CS MF MS PSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF VWR MS PSA. Wrote the paper: ELS KS CC CS VWR MS PSA.