About the Authors

Muneeb Ahmed

mahmed@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd.–WCC-308B, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States of America

Gaurav Kumar

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd.–WCC-308B, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States of America

Gemma Navarro

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States of America

Yuanguo Wang

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd.–WCC-308B, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States of America

Svetlana Gourevitch

Affiliation The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah POB 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Marwan H. Moussa

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd.–WCC-308B, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States of America

Nir Rozenblum

Affiliation The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah POB 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Tatyana Levchenko

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States of America

Eithan Galun

Affiliation The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah POB 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Vladimir P. Torchilin

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States of America

S. Nahum Goldberg

Affiliations Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 1 Deaconess Rd.–WCC-308B, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States of America, Division of Image-guided Therapy and Interventional Oncology, Department of Radiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Kiryat Hadassah POB 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA GK GN YW SG MHM NR TL EG VPT SNG. Performed the experiments: MA GK GN YW SG MHM NR SNG. Analyzed the data: MA GK GN YW SG MHM NR TL EG VPT SNG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA GK GN YW SG MHM NR TL EG VPT SNG. Wrote the paper: MA GK GN YW SG MHM NR TL EG VPT SNG.