About the Authors

Mohammad R. Nezami Ranjbar

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Yue Luo

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Cristina Di Poto

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Rency S. Varghese

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Alessia Ferrarini

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Chi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Naglaa I. Sarhan

Affiliation Department of Histology and Genetics, Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Hanan Soliman

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Mahlet G. Tadesse

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Dina H. Ziada

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Rabindra Roy

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Habtom W. Ressom

hwr@georgetown.edu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRNR YL CDP RSV HWR. Performed the experiments: YL CDP AF. Analyzed the data: MRNR RSV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRNR YL CDP RSV AF. Wrote the paper: MRNR YL CDP RSV AF CZ NIS HS MGT DHZ RR HWR. Designed the software used in analysis: MRNR. Sample collection: NIS HS DHZ. Principal investigator: HWR.