About the Authors

Nathan V. Lee

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Maruja E. Lira

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Adam Pavlicek

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jingjing Ye

Current address: Division of Biostatistics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Global Pre-Clinical Statistics, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Dana Buckman

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Shubha Bagrodia

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sreesha P. Srinivasa

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yongjun Zhao

Affiliation Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Samuel Aparicio

Affiliations Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paul A. Rejto

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

James G. Christensen

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Keith A. Ching

keith.ching@pfizer.com

Affiliation Oncology Research Unit, Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Nathan Lee, Maruja Lira, Adam Pavlicek, Jingjing Ye, Dana Buckman, Shubha Bagrodia, Sreesha Srinivasa, Paul Rejto, James Christensen, and Keith Ching were paid employees of Pfizer. Yongjun Zhao and Samuel Aparicio were funded by Pfizer. Pfizer maintains the patents and marketing rights to the compounds PF-04217903, PF-04880594, and Xalkori used in this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NVL MEL KAC SS. Performed the experiments: NVL MEL KAC DB. Analyzed the data: NVL MEL AP JY SA KAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAC AP YZ SA SB. Wrote the paper: NVL MEL KAC JGC PAR SA.