About the Authors

Elena Zaika

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Vikas Bhardwaj

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jinxiong Wei

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mary Kay Washington

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Rhonda Souza

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, VA North Texas Health Care System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Wael El-Rifai

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alexander Zaika

alex.zaika@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ. Performed the experiments: EZ JW MW WE VB. Analyzed the data: EZ AZ MW VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS WE. Wrote the paper: EZ AZ.