About the Authors

Courtney Pendleton

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Pendleton, Qian Li

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Qian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Pendleton, Qian Li

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David A. Chesler

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kristy Yuan

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hugo Guerrero-Cazares

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

aquinon2@jhmi.edu

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Departments of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP DAC QL KY HGC AQH. Performed the experiments: CP DAC KY. Analyzed the data: CP DAC QL KY HGC AQH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP DAC QL KY HGC AQH. Wrote the paper: CP QL HGC.