About the Authors

Mya S. Thu

mthu@coh.org (MYT); kaboody@coh.org (KSA)

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Joseph Najbauer

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Stephen E. Kendall

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ira Harutyunyan

Affiliation Radiology MS 81, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nicole Sangalang

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Margarita Gutova

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Marianne Z. Metz

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Garcia

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Richard T. Frank

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Seung U. Kim

Affiliations Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Inchon, Korea

Rex A. Moats

Contributed equally to this work with: Rex A. Moats, Karen S. Aboody

Affiliation Radiology MS 81, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Karen S. Aboody

Contributed equally to this work with: Rex A. Moats, Karen S. Aboody

mthu@coh.org (MYT); kaboody@coh.org (KSA)

Affiliations Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America, Division of Neuroscience, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MST RAM KSA. Performed the experiments: MST SEK IH NS MG MM EG. Analyzed the data: MST JN SEK IH MG MM RTF RAM KSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MST SUK KSA. Wrote the paper: MST JN SEK RAM KSA. Designed the experiments: SEK.