About the Authors

Catalin Vasilescu

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalin Vasilescu, Mihnea Dragomir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

catvasilescu@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Fundeni Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Mihnea Dragomir

Contributed equally to this work with: Catalin Vasilescu, Mihnea Dragomir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Fundeni Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Mihai Tanase

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Dana Giza

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Fundeni Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

Raluca Purnichescu-Purtan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Methods and Models, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Meng Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sai-Ching Jim Yeung

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

George A. Calin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for RNA Interference and Non-coding RNAs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.