About the Authors

Lorella Marselli

Affiliation Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Thorne

Affiliation Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sonika Dahiya

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dennis C. Sgroi

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arun Sharma

Affiliation Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Bonner-Weir

Affiliation Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Piero Marchetti

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Organ Transplantation, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Gordon C. Weir

gordon.weir@joslin.harvard.edu

Affiliation Section on Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, 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: LM SBW PM GCW. Performed the experiments: LM JT SD DCS. Analyzed the data: LM JT AS SBW GCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM. Wrote the paper: LM GCW.