About the Authors

Nikolai Siebert

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Diana Seidel

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Christin Eger

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Madlen Jüttner

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Holger N. Lode

lode@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The funding received from Apeiron Biologics does not in any way alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no competing interests resulting from this research funding and this does not affect the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS HNL. Performed the experiments: NS CE MJ DS. Analyzed the data: NS CE MJ DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS CE MJ DS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NS CE MJ DS HNL.