About the Authors

Hye-Won Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye-Won Kang, S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam, Avner Friedman

Affiliation Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Melissa Crawford

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Muller Fabbri

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Gerard Nuovo

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michela Garofalo

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye-Won Kang, S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam, Avner Friedman

Patrick.Nana-Sinkam@osumc.edu

Affiliation Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Avner Friedman

Contributed equally to this work with: Hye-Won Kang, S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam, Avner Friedman

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWK AF SPNS. Performed the experiments: MC GN HWK. Analyzed the data: HWK AF SPNS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF SPNS. Wrote the paper: HWK AF SPNS. Provided lung tumor tissues for the PCR experiments: MF. Provided EGFR mutant lung cancer cell lines and Gefitinib: MG.