About the Authors

Li Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Peng, Michael D. Oberst

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Michael D. Oberst

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Peng, Michael D. Oberst

Affiliation Preclinical Oncology, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Jiaqi Huang

Affiliation Translational Sciences, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Philip Brohawn

Affiliation Translational Sciences, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Chris Morehouse

Affiliation Translational Sciences, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Kristen Lekstrom

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick A. Baeuerle

Affiliation Amgen Research (Munich) GmbH, Munich, Germany

Herren Wu

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Yihong Yao

Affiliation Translational Sciences, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Steven R. Coats

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

William Dall’Acqua

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Melissa Damschroder

damschroderm@medimmune.com (MD); hammonds@medimmune.com (SH)

Affiliation Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Scott A. Hammond

damschroderm@medimmune.com (MD); hammonds@medimmune.com (SH)

Affiliation Preclinical Oncology, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

P. Baeuerle is an employee of Micromet, Inc. All other authors are employees of MedImmune LLC. MedImmune and Micromet have several patent applications pending relating to MEDI-565 (a product in development). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP MO JH MD SH. Performed the experiments: LP MO JH P. Brohawn CM. Analyzed the data: LP MO JH P. Brohawn CM MD SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL. Wrote the paper: LP MO MD SH. Supervised the study: P. Baeuerle HW YY SC WD. Approved the manuscript: P. Baeuerle HW YY SC WD.