About the Authors

Kavita M. Pattani

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavita M. Pattani, Ethan Soudry

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ethan Soudry

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavita M. Pattani, Ethan Soudry

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chad A. Glazer

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael F. Ochs

Affiliation Department of Oncology Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hao Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Juliana Schussel

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Wenyue Sun

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick Hennessey

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Wojciech Mydlarz

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Myriam Loyo

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Semra Demokan

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Basic Oncology, Oncology Institute, Istanbul University, Capa, Istanbul, Turkey

Ian M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph A. Califano

jcalifa@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Milton J. Dance Head and Neck Center, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMP JS ES JC CG PH WM ML IS SD WS. Performed the experiments: ES KMP JS ML WM PH SD IS CG WS. Analyzed the data: KMP ES JS CG HW MO IS SD WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MO HW. Wrote the paper: ES KMP JC MO.