About the Authors

Debasmita Dutta

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Dept. of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

Priyanka Ray

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

Archana De

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America

Arnab Ghosh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Papum Pare, AP, India

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Raj Shankar Hazra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

Pratyusha Ghosh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America, Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America

Snigdha Banerjee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Snigdha.banerjee@va.gov (SB); sbanerjee2@kumc.edu, cancerresearchunit@icloud.com (SKB); Mohiuddin.quadir@ndsu.edu (MQ)

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Francisco J. Diaz

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Sunil P. Upadhyay

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Mohiuddin Quadir

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Snigdha.banerjee@va.gov (SB); sbanerjee2@kumc.edu, cancerresearchunit@icloud.com (SKB); Mohiuddin.quadir@ndsu.edu (MQ)

Affiliation Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

Sushanta K. Banerjee

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

Snigdha.banerjee@va.gov (SB); sbanerjee2@kumc.edu, cancerresearchunit@icloud.com (SKB); Mohiuddin.quadir@ndsu.edu (MQ)

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.