About the Authors

Michael Schaller-Schönitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Schaller-Schönitz, David Barzan

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

David Barzan

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Schaller-Schönitz, David Barzan

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Andrew J. K. Williamson

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

John R. Griffiths

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Iris Dallmann

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Karin Battmer

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Arnold Ganser

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Anthony D. Whetton

Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Michaela Scherr

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Matthias Eder

Eder.Matthias@MH-Hannover.de

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS-S AJKW JRG ADW MS ME. Performed the experiments: MS-S DB AJKW JRG ID KB. Analyzed the data: MS-S DB AJKW JRG AG ADW MS ME. Wrote the paper: MS-S DB AKW JRG ADW ME.