About the Authors

Yeong-Hoon Choi

yh.choi@uk-koeln.de

Current address: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heartcenter of the University of Cologne, Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Douglas B. Cowan

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meena Nathan

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dimitrios Poutias

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christof Stamm

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pedro J. del Nido

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francis X. McGowan Jr

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHC DBC MN CS PJdN FXMJ. Performed the experiments: YHC DBC MN DP. Analyzed the data: YHC DBC CS PJdN FXMJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHC DBC PJdN FXMJ. Wrote the paper: YHC DBC CS FXMJ.