About the Authors

Orfeas Liangos

liangos_o@hotmail.com (OL); amir.abdollahi@tufts.edu (AA)

Affiliation The Kidney and Dialysis Research Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sophie Domhan

Affiliations Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nephrology, University Medical School and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Schwager

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical School and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Martin Zeier

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Medical School and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter E. Huber

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical School and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Francesco Addabbo

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Michael S. Goligorsky

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Lynn Hlatky

Affiliation Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bertrand L. Jaber

Affiliation The Kidney and Dialysis Research Laboratory, Division of Nephrology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amir Abdollahi

liangos_o@hotmail.com (OL); amir.abdollahi@tufts.edu (AA)

Affiliations Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical School and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL PEH BLJ AA. Performed the experiments: SD CS FA MSG. Analyzed the data: OL SD CS MZ PEH FA MSG LRH BLJ AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OL CS MZ PEH FA MSG LRH BLJ AA. Wrote the paper: OL SD LRH BLJ AA.