About the Authors

Zhao-Jun Liu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yan Li

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yurong Tan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Min Xiao

Affiliation The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jialin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Freddy Radtke

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Switzerland

Omaida C. Velazquez

ovelazquez@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL OCV. Performed the experiments: YL YT MX JZ. Analyzed the data: ZL YL YT MX. Wrote the paper: ZL OCV. Provided Notch1 Flox/Flox mice for this study: FR.