About the Authors

Nileema Khapare

Contributed equally to this work with: Nileema Khapare, Samrat T. Kundu, Lalit Sehgal

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Samrat T. Kundu

Contributed equally to this work with: Nileema Khapare, Samrat T. Kundu, Lalit Sehgal

Current address: Department of Thoracic H&N Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Lalit Sehgal

Contributed equally to this work with: Nileema Khapare, Samrat T. Kundu, Lalit Sehgal

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mugdha Sawant

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rashmi Priya

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Prajakta Gosavi

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Neha Gupta

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hunain Alam

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Madhura Karkhanis

Affiliation Pharmacology Department, Piramal Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nishigandha Naik

Affiliation Pharmacology Department, Piramal Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Milind M. Vaidya

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sorab N. Dalal

sdalal@actrec.gov.in

Affiliation KS215, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar Node, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

Madhura Karkhanis and Nishigandha Naik are employed by Piramal Life Sciences Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK LS STK HA NN MMV SND. Performed the experiments: NK STK LS RP MS PG HA MK NG. Analyzed the data: NK STK LS NN MMV SND. Wrote the paper: NK STK LS SND.