About the Authors

Jeannette Cany

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Anniek B. van der Waart

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Marleen Tordoir

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Glycostem Therapeutics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Gerben M. Franssen

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, RUNMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Basav N. Hangalapura

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jolanda de Vries

Affiliation Department of Tumor Immunology, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Otto Boerman

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, RUNMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Nicolaas Schaap

Affiliation Department of Hematology, RUNMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Robbert van der Voort

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jan Spanholtz

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Glycostem Therapeutics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Harry Dolstra

H.Dolstra@labgk.umcn.nl

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Regarding conflict of interest, the work has been performed in collaboration with Glycostem Therapeutics, a small SME in the Netherlands. The authors Jan Spanholtz and Marleen Tordoir are employees of Glycostem that work in author Harry Dolstra's laboratory, and Harry Dolstra acts as scientific consultant. 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: JC BH JDV OB RVDV JS HD. Performed the experiments: JC AVDW. Analyzed the data: JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT GF JDV OB JS. Wrote the paper: JC HD. Revised the manuscript: AVDW JDV OB NS JS.