About the Authors

Gülay Bulut

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Shannon Fallen

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Elspeth M. Beauchamp

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lauren E. Drebing

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Junfeng Sun

Affiliation Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Deborah L. Berry

Affiliation Histopathology Tissue Shared Resources, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Bhaskar Kallakury

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Christopher P. Crum

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Toretsky

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Richard Schlegel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Aykut Üren

au26@georgetown.edu

Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB SF DLB JAT RS AU. Performed the experiments: GB SF EMB LED DLB. Analyzed the data: GB JS BK CPC AU. Wrote the paper: GB AU.