About the Authors

David M. Goldenberg

dmg.gscancer@att.net

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Garden State Cancer Center, Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States of America

David V. Gold

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Garden State Cancer Center, Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States of America

Meiyu Loo

Affiliation Immunomedics, Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States of America

Donglin Liu

Affiliation Immunomedics, Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States of America

Chien-Hsing Chang

Affiliation Immunomedics, Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States of America

Elaine S. Jaffe

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: Meiyu Loo, Donglin Liu and Chien-Hsing Chang are employed by Immunomedics, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Reviewed and Edited the paper: DVG CHC ESJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: DMG. Performed the experiments: DVG ML DL CHC ESJ. Analyzed the data: DMG DVG ML DL CHC ESJ. Wrote the paper: DMG.