About the Authors

Paru Patrawalla

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Angeliki Kazeros

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Linda Rogers

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yongzhao Shao

Affiliation Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Mengling Liu

Affiliation Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria-Elena Fernandez-Beros

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Shulian Shang

Affiliation Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joan Reibman

joan.reibman@nyumc.org

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP LR AK YS ML SS JR. Analyzed the data: PP YS ML SS. Wrote the paper: PP LR AK YS ML SS MF JR. Data management: MF.