About the Authors

Bin Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Yuan, Fouad El Dana

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fouad El Dana

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Yuan, Fouad El Dana

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stanley Ly

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuanqing Yan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vivian Ruvolo

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elizabeth J. Shpall

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marina Konopleva

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael Andreeff

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

mandreef@mdanderson.org (MA); vbattula@mdanderson.org (VLB)

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Venkata Lokesh Battula

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mandreef@mdanderson.org (MA); vbattula@mdanderson.org (VLB)

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.