About the Authors

Alexander S. Baras

baras@jhmi.edu (AB); gnetto1@jhmi.edu (GN)

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nilay Gandhi

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Enrico Munari

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sheila Faraj

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luciana Shultz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luigi Marchionni

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mark Schoenberg

Affiliation Department of Urology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Noah Hahn

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mohammad Hoque

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David Berman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Trinity J. Bivalacqua

Affiliations Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

George Netto

baras@jhmi.edu (AB); gnetto1@jhmi.edu (GN)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB NG MS DB TB GN. Performed the experiments: AB NG EM SF LS. Analyzed the data: AB LM NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS DB MS TB GN. Wrote the paper: AB NG LM MS NH MH DB TB GN.