About the Authors

Dario Barbone

dario.barbone@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Priscilla Cheung

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sailaja Battula

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sara Busacca

Affiliation Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Steven G. Gray

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Daniel B. Longley

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Raphael Bueno

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David J. Sugarbaker

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dean A. Fennell

Affiliation Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

V. Courtney Broaddus

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, San Francisco General Hospital, 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: DB DAF DBL VCB. Performed the experiments: DB PC S. Battula S. Busacca. Analyzed the data: DB PC S. Battula S. Busacca. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGG RB DJS DAF. Wrote the paper: DB VCB.