Correction to: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-020-00419-w, published online 12 January 2021

After online publication of the article1, the authors noticed an error in affiliation of co-authors Dr. Nissar A. Wani. Dr. Wani is erroneously linked to Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar who is actually working at the Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Also, the department name “Cancer Research Department” for the first author Ajaz A. Bhat is missing.