About the Authors

Yonggang Pei

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Pei, Shuvomoy Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shuvomoy Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonggang Pei, Shuvomoy Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhiguo Sun

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hem Chandra Jha

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Abhik Saha

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India

Erle S. Robertson

erle@upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YP SB AS ESR. Formal analysis: YP SB ZS HCJ AS ESR. Investigation: YP SB AS. Methodology: YP SB ZS HCJ AS. Validation: YP SB AS. Writing - original draft: YP SB ESR. Writing - review & editing: YP ESR.