About the Authors

Michael S. Mulvihill

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael S. Mulvihill, Yong-Won Kwon

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yong-Won Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael S. Mulvihill, Yong-Won Kwon

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, United States of America

Sharon Lee

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Li Tai Fang

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Helen Choi

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Roshni Ray

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hio Chung Kang

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jian-Hua Mao

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, United States of America

David Jablons

David.Jablons@ucsfmedctr.org (DJ); kimij@cc.ucsf.edu (IJK)

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Il-Jin Kim

David.Jablons@ucsfmedctr.org (DJ); kimij@cc.ucsf.edu (IJK)

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSM YWK DJ IJK. Performed the experiments: MSM YWK SL HC MRR HCK. Analyzed the data: MSM YWK LTF IJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YWK SL HC MRR HCK JHM DJ IJK. Wrote the paper: MSM IJK.