About the Authors

Po-Wei Chen

Affiliation Integrative BioSystems Institute and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Luis L. Fonseca

Affiliations Integrative BioSystems Institute and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Instituto de Tecnologia Quıímica e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal

Yusuf A. Hannun

Affiliation The Cancer Center at Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University, Health Science Center, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Eberhard O. Voit

eberhard.voit@bme.gatech.edu

Affiliation Integrative BioSystems Institute and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PWC EOV. Performed the experiments: PWC. Analyzed the data: PWC LLF EOV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YAH. Wrote the paper: PWC EOV. Provided valuable feedback and expert advice: LLF YAH.