About the Authors

Benita Wolf

Contributed equally to this work with: Benita Wolf, Adrian Schwarzer

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases at University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany

Adrian Schwarzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Benita Wolf, Adrian Schwarzer

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Hannover Biomedical Research School, Experimental Paediactric Haematology and Oncology, Hannover, Germany

Anik L. Côté

Affiliation Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Thomas H. Hampton

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Thomas Schwaab

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Urology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Eduardo Huarte

Affiliation Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Craig R. Tomlinson

Affiliation Department. of Medicine, Immunotherapy Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Jiang Gui

Affiliation Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Jan L. Fisher

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department. of Medicine, Immunotherapy Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Camilo E. Fadul

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department. of Medicine, Immunotherapy Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Joshua W. Hamilton

Affiliation Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Woods Hole, Massachussetts, United States of America

Marc S. Ernstoff

Marc.S.Ernstoff@Hitchcock.org

Affiliations Medical Oncology Immunotherapy Group, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department. of Medicine, Immunotherapy Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS BW MSE JLF. Performed the experiments: BW AS JLF ALC CRT EH. Analyzed the data: BW AS THH TS JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSE CEF JH CRT ALC. Wrote the paper: BW AS JLF MSE ALC.