About the Authors

Joseph Najbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Najbauer, Peter C. Huszthy

jnajbauer@coh.org (JN); Peter.Huszthy@biomed.uib.no (PCH)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Peter C. Huszthy

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Najbauer, Peter C. Huszthy

jnajbauer@coh.org (JN); Peter.Huszthy@biomed.uib.no (PCH)

Affiliation NorLux Neuro-Oncology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Michael E. Barish

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Garcia

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Marianne Z. Metz

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sarah M. Myers

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Margarita Gutova

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Richard T. Frank

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Hrvoje Miletic

Affiliation NorLux Neuro-Oncology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Stephen E. Kendall

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Carlotta A. Glackin

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Rolf Bjerkvig

Affiliations NorLux Neuro-Oncology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, NorLux Neuro-Oncology, Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Karen S. Aboody

Affiliations Department of Neurosciences, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America, Division of Neurosurgery, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors JN and KSA declare that they are PLoS ONE Editorial Board members. KSA is co-founder of TheraBiologics, Inc., a company that supports the development of neural stem cell-mediated treatments for cancer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JN PCH MEB RB KSA. Performed the experiments: JN PCH EG MZM SMM MG RTF HM. Analyzed the data: JN PCH MEB SEK CAG RB KSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAG RB KSA. Wrote the paper: JN PCH RB KSA.