About the Authors

Hassan Brim

hashktorab@howard.edu (HA); hbrim@howard.edu (HB)

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Edward Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mones S. Abu-Asab

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mohamed Chaouchi

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Hadi Razjouyan

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Hassanzadeh Namin

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Ajay Goel

Affiliation Baylor Research Institute and Sammons Cancer Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Alejandro A. Schäffer

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hassan Ashktorab

hashktorab@howard.edu (HA); hbrim@howard.edu (HB)

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB HA MAA MC HR. Performed the experiments: AG HB. Analyzed the data: AAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL HN. Wrote the paper: HB HA.