About the Authors

Young H. Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Molly M. Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dinuka M. De Silva

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Arpita Roy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cara E. Wright

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tiffany K. Wong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rene Costello

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Oluwole Olaku

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert L. Grubb III

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Piyush K. Agarwal

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrea B. Apolo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

don.bottaro@nih.gov (DPB); andrea.apolo@nih.gov (ABP)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Donald P. Bottaro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

don.bottaro@nih.gov (DPB); andrea.apolo@nih.gov (ABP)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

D. Bottaro is an inventor on US Government held patents that are generally related to the subjects reported here: US 10,035,833: “Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Antagonists and Methods of Making”; US 9,550,818 and related international publications WO/2013/163606: “Methods for Use of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Antagonists”; US 8,617,831: “Methods for Diagnosing and Monitoring the Progression of Cancer by Measuring Soluble c-Met Ectodomain”; US 7,964,365 and related international WO/2007/056523: “Methods for Diagnosing and Monitoring the Progression of Cancer”; US 8,304,199: Methods for Diagnosing and Monitoring the Progression of Cancer by Measuring Soluble c-Met Ectodomain”; US 8,569,360 and related international publications WO/2009/124024 and WO/2009/124013: “Compositions and Methods for Inhibition of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Receptor c-Met Signaling”: US 7,871,981 and related international WO/2001/028577: “Inhibition of Cell Motility, Angiogenesis and Metastasis”. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No other authors have competing interests to disclose.