About the Authors
- Smita Nair
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Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Nair, Amy J. Aldrich
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Amy J. Aldrich
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Contributed equally to this work with: Smita Nair, Amy J. Aldrich
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Eoin McDonnell
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Qing Cheng
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Anshu Aggarwal
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Pujan Patel
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Monique M. Williams
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- David Boczkowski
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- H. Kim Lyerly
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Michael A. Morse
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Affiliations Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Gayathri R. Devi
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* E-mail: gayathri.devi@duke.edu
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
SN and DB are co-inventors on a patent that describes the use of dendritic cells transfected with tumor antigen encoding RNA that has been licensed by Argos Therapeutics (Durham, NC) through Duke University. SN and DB have no financial interests in Argos Therapeutics and are not compensated by Argos Therapeutics. HKL has financial interests in Argos Therapeutics but not compensated. 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: GRD SN. Performed the experiments: SN AJA EM QC AA PP MMW DB. Analyzed the data: GRD SN AJA DB EM QC PP HKL MAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRD SN QC HKL MAM. Wrote the paper: GRD SN AJA EM QC MAM.