About the Authors

Dickson K. Kirui

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Juahua Mai

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anna-Lisa Palange

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Guoting Qin

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne L. van de Ven

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xuewu Liu

Affiliation Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Haifa Shen

Affiliations Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cell and Development Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Mauro Ferrari

mferrari@houstonmethodist.org

Affiliations Department of NanoMedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK HS MF. Performed the experiments: DK JM AP. Analyzed the data: DK AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM AV GQ XL. Wrote the paper: DK AV.