About the Authors

Lukas Hunziker

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Hunziker, Salvador Aznar Benitah

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Salvador Aznar Benitah

Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Hunziker, Salvador Aznar Benitah

Affiliation ICREA Researcher, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain

Kristin M. Braun

Affiliation Centre for Cutaneous Research, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom

Kim Jensen

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Katrina McNulty

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Colin Butler

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Elspeth Potton

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emma Nye

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, United Kingdom

Richard Boyd

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Monash University Medical School, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia

Geoff Laurent

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael Glogauer

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Nick A. Wright

Affiliation Histopathology Unit, London Research Institute, Cancer Research (UK), London, United Kingdom

Fiona M. Watt

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CR UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sam M. Janes

s.janes@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH SB SJ. Performed the experiments: LH SB KB KJ KM CB EN. Analyzed the data: LH SB NW SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB GL MG NW FW. Wrote the paper: LH SB KB FW SJ.