About the Authors

Hae Kyung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae Kyung Lee, Ariel Bier

Affiliation Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Ariel Bier

Contributed equally to this work with: Hae Kyung Lee, Ariel Bier

Affiliation Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Simona Cazacu

Affiliation Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Susan Finniss

Affiliation Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Cunli Xiang

Affiliation Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Hodaya Twito

Affiliation Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Laila M. Poisson

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Tom Mikkelsen

Affiliation Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Shimon Slavin

Affiliation International Center for Cell Therapy and Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI), Tel-Aviv, Israel

Elad Jacoby

Affiliation Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, The Edmond and Lilly Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Michal Yalon

Affiliation Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, The Edmond and Lilly Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Amos Toren

Affiliation Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, The Edmond and Lilly Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Sandra A. Rempel

Affiliation Barbara Jane Levy Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Chaya Brodie

nscha@neuro.hfh.edu

Affiliations Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Technical support: EJ CX SC. Conceived and designed the experiments: HKL AB SS CB. Performed the experiments: HKL AB SF SC CX HT EJ. Analyzed the data: HKL AB EJ MY AT SR TM SS LP CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP EJ AT MY SR. Wrote the paper: HKL AB CB.