About the Authors

Abdula Monther

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

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Riyam Al-Msari

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

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Saddawi-Konefka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America, Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Santiago Fassardi

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Cynthia Tang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Chad Philips

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Prakriti Sen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Pardis Mohammadzadeh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Kelsey Decker

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Sayuri Miyauchi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Souvick Roy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Riley Jones

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Xingyu Wu

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America

Silvio Gutkind

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Andrew Sharabi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America

Joseph Califano

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

jcalifano@health.ucsd.edu

Affiliations Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America, Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.