About the Authors

Daniel H. Buitrago

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel H. Buitrago, Santosh K. Patnaik

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Santosh K. Patnaik

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel H. Buitrago, Santosh K. Patnaik

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kyuichi Kadota

Affiliations Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Eric Kannisto

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

David R. Jones

Affiliation Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Prasad S. Adusumilli

adusumip@mskcc.org

Affiliations Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center of Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Two of the co-authors of this manuscript (P.A. and S.K.P.) are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSA. Performed the experiments: DHB KK EK. Analyzed the data: SKP DHB DRJ PSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK DRJ PSA. Wrote the paper: KK DRJ PSA.