About the Authors

Ilaria Pergolini

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Pergolini, Vicente Morales-Oyarvide

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Vicente Morales-Oyarvide

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Pergolini, Vicente Morales-Oyarvide

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mari Mino-Kenudson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kim C. Honselmann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew W. Rosenbaum

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sabikun Nahar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marina Kem

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cristina R. Ferrone

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keith D. Lillemoe

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nabeel Bardeesy

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David P. Ryan

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sarah P. Thayer

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Division of Surgical Oncology and the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew L. Warshaw

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carlos Fernández-del Castillo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew S. Liss

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

aliss@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery and the Andrew L. Warshaw, MD Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.