Rong, Chao
Muller, Marie F.
Xiang, Fang
Jensen, Alexandra
Weichert, Wilko
Major, Gerald
Plinkert, Peter K.
Hess, Jochen
Affolter, Annette
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Scholarship Council
German Cancer Aid
Heidelberg University’s Medical Faculty
Article History
Received: 26 August 2019
Revised: 25 January 2020
Accepted: 23 April 2020
First Online: 19 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients after the ethics committee review of Heidelberg University’s Medical Faculty (ethic votes 206/2005 for TMA samples, S-396/2012 for ex vivo samples). The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this publication. HNSCC datasets are available from TCGA/TCPA described in the methods session.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: C.R. was supported by a PhD fellowship from the China Scholarship Council. M.M. and J.H. were supported by the German Cancer Aid in the framework of the Mildred-Scheel MD fellowship program. F.X. was supported by a MD scholarship from the Heinz Goetze Memorial Fellowship Program of the Athenaeum Foundation. A.A. was supported by a scholarship for physicians of Heidelberg University’s Medical Faculty. Open access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.