About the Authors

Christian Ruiz

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Ruiz, Joana Raquel Martins

christian.ruiz@unibas.ch

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Joana Raquel Martins

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Ruiz, Joana Raquel Martins

Affiliation Institut für Physiologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Florian Rudin

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Sandra Schneider

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Tanja Dietsche

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Claude A. Fischer

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland

Luigi Tornillo

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Luigi M. Terracciano

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Rainer Schreiber

Affiliation Institut für Physiologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Lukas Bubendorf

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Karl Kunzelmann

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institut für Physiologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR JRM LT LMT RS LB KK. Performed the experiments: CR JRM FR SS TD RS. Analyzed the data: CR JRM LB KK RS CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF. Wrote the paper: CR JRM LB KK.