About the Authors

Amanda Tivnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Tivnan, Wayne Shannon Orr

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Wayne Shannon Orr

Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Tivnan, Wayne Shannon Orr

Affiliations Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Vladimir Gubala

Affiliation Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Robert Nooney

Affiliation Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

David E. Williams

Affiliation Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Colette McDonagh

Affiliation Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Suzanne Prenter

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Harry Harvey

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Raquel Domingo-Fernández

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Isabella M. Bray

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Olga Piskareva

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Catherine Y. Ng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Holger N. Lode

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Andrew M. Davidoff

Affiliations Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Raymond L. Stallings

rstallings@rcsi.ie

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT AMD WSO CM VG RN DEW HNL RLS. Performed the experiments: AT WSO VG RN SP HH RDF IMB OP CYN. Analyzed the data: AT WSO AMD RLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNL. Wrote the paper: AT WSO RN VG CM AMD RLS.