About the Authors

A. Aria Tzika

atzika@hms.harvard.edu (AAT); rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (LGR)

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Athinoula A. Martinos Center of Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Caterina Constantinou

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arunava Bandyopadhaya

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nikolaos Psychogios

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Athinoula A. Martinos Center of Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sangseok Lee

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Mindrinos

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

J. A. Jeevendra Martyn

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald G. Tompkins

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurence G. Rahme

atzika@hms.harvard.edu (AAT); rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (LGR)

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAT LGR. Performed the experiments: CC AB NP SL MM. Analyzed the data: AAT CC AB LGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAT JAVM RGT LGR. Wrote the paper: AAT AB LGR.