About the Authors

Kendra N. Iskander

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, C 515, Boston, MA, 02118, United States of America

Max Vaickus

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 670 Albany Street, Room 441, Boston, MA, 02118, United States of America

Elizabeth R. Duffy

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 670 Albany Street, Room 441, Boston, MA, 02118, United States of America

Daniel G. Remick

remickd@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 670 Albany Street, Room 441, Boston, MA, 02118, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KI DR. Data curation: MV ED. Funding acquisition: DR. Investigation: KI MV ED. Methodology: MV ED DR. Project administration: ED. Resources: DR. Supervision: DR. Validation: MV. Visualization: MV. Writing – original draft: KI. Writing – review & editing: KI MV ED DR.