About the Authors

Anusree Sasidharan

Contributed equally to this work with: Anusree Sasidharan, Astrid Grosche

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Astrid Grosche

Contributed equally to this work with: Anusree Sasidharan, Astrid Grosche

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

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Xiaodong Xu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

T. Bernard Kinane

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pediatric Pulmonary Division, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Damiano Angoli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Pediatric Pulmonary Division, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sadasivan Vidyasagar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

vidyasagar@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

Sadasivan Vidyasagar shares and royalties in Entrinsic Bioscience Inc.. A patent application was files with Sadasivan Vidyasagar, Anusree Sasidharan, Astrid Grosche as contributing inventors. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.