About the Authors

Mihaela Gadjeva

mgadjeva@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jill Nagashima

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanweer Zaidi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert A. Mitchell

Affiliation James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Gerald B. Pier

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. R. A. Mitchell holds a patent on the use of 4-IPP and its derivatives.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG GBP. Performed the experiments: MG JN TZ. Analyzed the data: MG JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAM. Wrote the paper: MG GBP.