About the Authors

Tien T. Tang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David A. Rendon

Affiliation Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Janice A. Zawaski

Affiliation Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Solmaz F. Afshar

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

Caterina K. Kaffes

Affiliation Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Omaima M. Sabek

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

M. Waleed Gaber

gaber@bcm.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TT WG. Data curation: TT DR JZ SA CK OS WG. Formal analysis: TT. Funding acquisition: WG. Investigation: TT DR JZ SA CK OS WG. Methodology: TT DR JZ SA CK OS WG. Resources: OS WG. Supervision: WG. Visualization: TT. Writing – original draft: TT WG. Writing – review & editing: TT JZ WG.