About the Authors

Sharyn L. Rossi

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

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

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

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Aleksandra J. Poole

Affiliation California Stem Cell, Inc., Irvine, California, United States of America

John H. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Matthew J. Gardener

Affiliation BioFocus, a Galapagos company, Chesterford Research Park, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom

Sipke Dijkstra

Affiliation Galapagos, Leiden, The Netherlands

David F. Fischer

Affiliation BioFocus, a Galapagos company, Leiden, The Netherlands

Hans S. Keirstead

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.