About the Authors

Ren Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren Lang, Guihua Liu

Affiliations Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Guihua Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren Lang, Guihua Liu

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yingai Shi

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Shantaram Bharadwaj

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaoyan Leng

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaobo Zhou

Affiliation Radiology/Translational Biology Department, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hong Liu

Affiliation Center for Bioengineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Anthony Atala

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Yuanyuan Zhang

yzhang@wakehealth.edu

Affiliation Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Administrative support: AA. Editorial help: AA. Conceived and designed the experiments: YYZ. Performed the experiments: RL GL YS SB. Analyzed the data: RL GL YS SB XL XZ HL YYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA. Wrote the paper: RL GL YYZ.