Singh, Shilpa
Gheghiani, Lilia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0713-1789
Velasco, Brandon
Frum, Rebecca
Grossman, Steven R.
Windle, Brad
Deb, Sumitra
Deb, Swati Palit https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4642-6424
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (CA267971)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (CA238515)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (CA238515)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2025
Revised: 10 December 2025
Accepted: 21 January 2026
First Online: 26 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal experiments were approved (AM10234) and performed following the rules of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Patient samples with informed consent for study participation in the manuscript were obtained from VCU Tissue and Data Acquisition and Analysis Core (TDAAC) approved by the Institutional Review Board.