About the Authors

Serdar Bozdag

serdar.bozdag@marquette.edu

Affiliations Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Aiguo Li

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory Riddick

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuri Kotliarov

Affiliations Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Human Immunology, Autoimmunity and Inflammation, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mehmet Baysan

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Fabio M. Iwamoto

Affiliations Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, The Neurological Institute of New York, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Margaret C. Cam

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Svetlana Kotliarova

Affiliation Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Howard A. Fine

Affiliations Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, New York University Cancer Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB HAF. Performed the experiments: SB AL GR YK MB FMI MCC SK. Analyzed the data: SB AL GR YK MB FMI MCC SK. Wrote the paper: SB HAF.