About the Authors

Hongwei Shao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ranran Kong

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Thoracic Surgery, the 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, China

Massimiliano L. Ferrari

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Freddy Radtke

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

Anthony J. Capobianco

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Zhao-Jun Liu

zliu@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL. Performed the experiments: HS RK MLF. Analyzed the data: HS RK ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR AC. Wrote the paper: ZL.