About the Authors
- Sharyn L. Rossi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sharyn L. Rossi, Gabriel Nistor
Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Gabriel Nistor
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sharyn L. Rossi, Gabriel Nistor
Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Tanya Wyatt
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Hong Zhen Yin
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Aleksandra J. Poole
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Affiliation California Stem Cell, Inc., Irvine, California, United States of America
- John H. Weiss
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Matthew J. Gardener
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Affiliation BioFocus, a Galapagos company, Chesterford Research Park, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom
- Sipke Dijkstra
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Affiliation Galapagos, Leiden, The Netherlands
- David F. Fischer
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Affiliation BioFocus, a Galapagos company, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Hans S. Keirstead
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* E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Affiliation Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Hans Keirstead has financial interests in California Stem Cell, Inc., a company with interests related to the study. Dr. Keirstead serves as the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at California Stem Cell. He also owns equity interests in California Stem Cell which is in addition to his salary from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Gabriel Nistor has financial interests in California Stem Cell, Inc., a company with interests related to the study. Dr. Nistor is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and serves as a consultant for California Stem Cell. He also receives consulting income from California Stem Cell and owns equity interests. This is in addition to his salary from the University of California, Irvine. Aleksandra J. Poole is a research scientist at California Stem Cell, Inc. and therefore, has financial interest in the company.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SLR GN AJP JHW MG SD DFF HK. Performed the experiments: SLR GN TW HZY MG SD DFF. Analyzed the data: SLR GN AJP MG SD DFF HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK. Wrote the paper: SLR HK.