About the Authors

Nicolas Christoforou

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Christoforou, Behzad N. Oskouei

nc28@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Behzad N. Oskouei

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Christoforou, Behzad N. Oskouei

Affiliation Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Paul Esteso

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christine M. Hill

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Zimmet

Affiliation Interventional Cardiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Weining Bian

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nenad Bursac

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kam W. Leong

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joshua M. Hare

Affiliation Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

John D. Gearhart

Affiliation Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC BNO NB KWL JH JG. Performed the experiments: NC BNO PE CMH JMZ WB. Analyzed the data: NC BNO PE JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC BNO. Wrote the paper: NC BNO NB KWL JH JG.