About the Authors

Robert Molokie

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donald Lavelle

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michel Gowhari

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Pacini

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lani Krauz

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Johara Hassan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vinzon Ibanez

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maria A. Ruiz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kwok Peng Ng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Philip Woost

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Tomas Radivoyevitch

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Daisy Pacelli

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sherry Fada

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew Rump

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew Hsieh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Hematology Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John F. Tisdale

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Clinical Hematology Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

James Jacobberger

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mitch Phelps

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

James Douglas Engel

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Santhosh Saraf

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lewis L. Hsu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Victor Gordeuk

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joseph DeSimone

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yogen Saunthararajah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

saunthy@ccf.org

Affiliations Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DL, JD, and YS have patent applications around decitabine and around the combination of tetrahydrouridine and decitabine. In addition, JD and YS are consultants to EpiDestiny, that has licensed oral THU-decitabine for development as a treatment for sickle cell disease. EpiDestiny did not fund this clinical trial, and had no role in the study design, collection or analysis of the data, preparation of the manuscript, or the decision to publish. None of the authors have received any payments related to conduct of this clinical trial.