About the Authors

Heather MacTavish

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather MacTavish, Jean-Simon Diallo

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Simon Diallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Heather MacTavish, Jean-Simon Diallo

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Baocheng Huang

Affiliation Departments of Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marianne Stanford

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fabrice Le Boeuf

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Naomi De Silva

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Julie Cox

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

John Graydon Simmons

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tanya Guimond

Affiliation Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Theresa Falls

Affiliation Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

J. Andrea McCart

Affiliation Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Harry Atkins

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Caroline Breitbach

Affiliation Jennerex Biotherapeutics, Ltd., San Francisco, California, United States of America

David Kirn

Affiliation Jennerex Biotherapeutics, Ltd., San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephen Thorne

Affiliations Departments of Surgery and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Jennerex Biotherapeutics, Ltd., San Francisco, California, United States of America

John C. Bell

jbell@ohri.ca

Affiliations Center for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Jennerex Biotherapeutics, Ltd., San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

JB, DK, ST and CB are affiliated with and/or employed by Jennerex Biotherapeutics. However, no direct financial support was provided by Jennerex for the completion of this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM JSD BH MMMS HA SHT JCB. Performed the experiments: HM JSD BH MMMS FLB NDS JC JGS TG TF. Analyzed the data: HM JSD BH MMMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FLB JAM DK SHT JCB. Wrote the paper: HM JSD CB JCB.