About the Authors
- Daniel Enderle
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* E-mail: daniel@exosomedx.com
Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
- Alexandra Spiel
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Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
- Christine M. Coticchia
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Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America
- Emily Berghoff
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Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America
- Romy Mueller
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Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
- Martin Schlumpberger
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Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, QIAGEN Strasse 1, 40274 Hilden, Germany
- Markus Sprenger-Haussels
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Affiliation QIAGEN GmbH, QIAGEN Strasse 1, 40274 Hilden, Germany
- Jonathan M. Shaffer
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Affiliation QIAGEN, 6951 Executive Way, Frederick, MD 21703, United States of America
- Eric Lader
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Affiliation QIAGEN, 6951 Executive Way, Frederick, MD 21703, United States of America
- Johan Skog
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Affiliation Exosome Diagnostics Inc., 840 Memorial Drive, Suite 3, Cambridge MA 02139, United States of America
- Mikkel Noerholm
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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.