About the Authors

Ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Wang, Quanli Gao

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cellular Therapy, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Centre, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Hematology, Henan Tumor Hospital, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Quanli Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Wang, Quanli Gao

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Centre, Oslo, Norway, Department of Hematology, Henan Tumor Hospital, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhenhe Suo

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Else Munthe

Affiliations Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Centre, Oslo, Norway, Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Steinar Solberg

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Liwei Ma

Affiliation Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Mengyu Wang

Affiliations Department of Cellular Therapy, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Nomdo Anton Christiaan Westerdaal

Affiliation Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Centre, Oslo, Norway

Gunnar Kvalheim

Affiliations Department of Cellular Therapy, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Gustav Gaudernack

gustav.gaudernac@rr-research.no

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Cancer Stem Cell Innovation Centre, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PW QG GG LM. Performed the experiments: PW QG EM MW NW. Analyzed the data: PW QG ZS EM NW GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PW QG ZS EM SS LM GK GG. Wrote the paper: PW GK GG.