About the Authors

Drew C. Deniger

Current address: Surgery Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jianqiang Yu

Affiliation Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

M. Helen Huls

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew J. Figliola

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tiejuan Mi

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sourindra N. Maiti

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

George F. Widhopf 2nd

Affiliation Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Lenka V. Hurton

Affiliations Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Radhika Thokala

Affiliations Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Harjeet Singh

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Simon Olivares

Affiliation Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard E. Champlin

Affiliation Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William G. Wierda

Affiliation Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas J. Kipps

Affiliation Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Laurence J. N. Cooper

ljncooper@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Pediatrics, Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Cooper founded and owns InCellerate, Inc. He has patents with Sangamo BioSciences with artificial nucleases. He consults with Targazyme, Inc. (formerly American Stem cells, Inc.), GE Healthcare, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Fate Therapeutics, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Cellectis. He receives honoraria from Miltenyi Biotec. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCD REC WGW TJK LJNC. Performed the experiments: DCD JY MHH MJF TM SNM GFW RT. Analyzed the data: DCD MHH MJF TM JY GFW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCD JY LVH GFW HS SO WGW TJK. Wrote the paper: DCD WGW TKJ LJNC.