About the Authors

Yeonju Lee

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

Eugene J. Koay

Affiliations Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Weijia Zhang

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

Lidong Qin

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

Dickson K. Kirui

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

Fazle Hussain

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 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 Developmental 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 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: YL MF. Performed the experiments: YL WZ. Analyzed the data: YL WZ LQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LQ HS. Wrote the paper: YL. Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: EK DK FH. Final approval of manuscript: HS MF.