About the Authors

Peter R. Sinnaeve

peter.sinnaeve@uzleuven.be

Affiliations Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, UZ Leuven Gasthuisberg, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Mark P. Donahue

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter Grass

Affiliation Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Boston, United States of America

David Seo

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jacky Vonderscher

Affiliation Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Boston, United States of America

Salah-Dine Chibout

Affiliation Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Boston, United States of America

William E. Kraus

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael Sketch Jr.

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Charlotte Nelson

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher B. Granger

Affiliation Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs Grass, Chibout and Vonderscher are full-time employees of Novartis.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRS MPD PG DMS JV WEK GSG PJGC CBG. Performed the experiments: MPD PG DMS MHSJ GSG PJGC CBG. Analyzed the data: PRS PG DMS SDC WEK CLN CBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPD PG JV SDC MHSJ. Wrote the paper: PRS PJGC CBG.