Author Affiliations

Rahul Pal,¹ Paula Villarreal,¹ Tyra Brown,¹ Suimin Qiu,^2,3 Susan McCammon,^3,4 and Gracie Vargas^1,3,5

¹Center for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550

²Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550

³Center for Cancers of the Head and Neck, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550

⁴Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550

⁵Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550