About the Authors

Brian J. Kirby

bk88@cornell.edu (BJK); pag2015@med.cornell.edu (PG)

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mona Jodari

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Matthew S. Loftus

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Gunjan Gakhar

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Erica D. Pratt

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Chantal Chanel-Vos

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Jason P. Gleghorn

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Steven M. Santana

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

He Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

James P. Smith

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Vicente N. Navarro

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Scott T. Tagawa

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Neil H. Bander

Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

David M. Nanus

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Paraskevi Giannakakou

bk88@cornell.edu (BJK); pag2015@med.cornell.edu (PG)

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

BK, PG, ST and DN disclose consulting income from Sanofi US. This does not alter our adherence to all the Plos One's policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK DN ST PG JGEP SS JS ML MJ GG. Performed the experiments: VN CCV. Analyzed the data: BK DN ST PG JGEP SS JS ML MJ GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS EP NB HL. Wrote the paper: BK DN PG.