About the Authors

Biju Parekkadan

Contributed equally to this work with: Biju Parekkadan, Daan van Poll, Kazuhiro Suganuma

Affiliations Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daan van Poll

Contributed equally to this work with: Biju Parekkadan, Daan van Poll, Kazuhiro Suganuma

Affiliations Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Kazuhiro Suganuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Biju Parekkadan, Daan van Poll, Kazuhiro Suganuma

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward A. Carter

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

François Berthiaume

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arno W. Tilles

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin L. Yarmush

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ireis@sbi.org

Affiliations Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BP Dv FB AT MY. Performed the experiments: BP Dv KS EC. Analyzed the data: BP Dv KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC. Wrote the paper: BP MY.