About the Authors

Lawrence S. Lamb Jr

Lawrence.Lamb@ccc.uab.edu (LSL); hspence@emory.edu (HTS)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Joscelyn Bowersock

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Anindya Dasgupta

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

G. Yancey Gillespie

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yun Su

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Austin Johnson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

H. Trent Spencer

Lawrence.Lamb@ccc.uab.edu (LSL); hspence@emory.edu (HTS)

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSL GYG HTS. Performed the experiments: JB AD YS AJ. Analyzed the data: LSL AD HTS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSL GYG HTS. Wrote the paper: LSL AD HTS.