About the Authors

Alessia Lodi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessia Lodi, Stefano Tiziani

alessia@austin.utexas.edu (AL); m.t.drayson@bham.ac.uk (MTD)

Affiliations School of Cancer Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Stefano Tiziani

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessia Lodi, Stefano Tiziani

Affiliations School of Cancer Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Farhat L. Khanim

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ulrich L. Günther

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Mark R. Viant

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gareth J. Morgan

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Christopher M. Bunce

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Mark T. Drayson

alessia@austin.utexas.edu (AL); m.t.drayson@bham.ac.uk (MTD)

Affiliation School of Immunity and Infection, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Clinical lead on Myeloma IX: GJM. Clinical investigator on Myeloma IX: MTD. Conceived and designed the experiments: AL ST FLK ULG MRV GJM CMB MTD. Performed the experiments: AL ST. Analyzed the data: AL ST FLK ULG MRV GJM CMB MTD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ULG MRV GJM CMB MTD. Wrote the paper: AL ST FLK ULG MRV GJM CMB MTD.