About the Authors

Daniel Enderle

daniel@exosomedx.com

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

Alexandra Spiel

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

Christine M. Coticchia

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America

Emily Berghoff

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America

Romy Mueller

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

Martin Schlumpberger

Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, QIAGEN Strasse 1, 40274 Hilden, Germany

Markus Sprenger-Haussels

Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, QIAGEN Strasse 1, 40274 Hilden, Germany

Jonathan M. Shaffer

Affiliation QIAGEN, 6951 Executive Way, Frederick, MD 21703, United States of America

Eric Lader

Affiliation QIAGEN, 6951 Executive Way, Frederick, MD 21703, United States of America

Johan Skog

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America

Mikkel Noerholm

Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

Competing Interests

All authors are full time employees of the for-profit organizations Exosome Diagnostics or QIAGEN. Exosome Diagnostics and QIAGEN provided support in the form of salaries for authors [DE, AS, CC, EB, RM, MS, MSH, JMS, EL, JS, MN], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The authors DE, EB, JS and MN are listed as inventors of a patent application (Methods for isolating microvesicles, PCT/US2014/010173) relating to this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DE CC MS JS MN. Performed the experiments: AS CC EB RM JMS. Analyzed the data: DE CC MS MSH EL JS MN. Wrote the paper: DE JS MN.