About the Authors

Mitchell J. Frederick

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

vlad.sandulache@bcm.edu (VCS); Mitchell.Frederick@bcm.edu (MJF)

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dannelys Perez-Bello

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pedram Yadollahi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patricia Castro

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States

Alan Frederick

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Informagen, Wilmington, D.E., United States

Andrew Frederick

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

Affiliation Informagen, Wilmington, D.E., United States

Rashid A. Osman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation - Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Fonma Essien

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

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Imelda Yebra

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

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashley Hamlin

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

Affiliation Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas J. Ow

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Heath D. Skinner

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, UPMC Hilman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vlad C. Sandulache

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vlad.sandulache@bcm.edu (VCS); Mitchell.Frederick@bcm.edu (MJF)

Affiliations Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, ENT Section, Operative CareLine, Michael E. DeBakey VAMC, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.