About the Authors

Scott M. Damrauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Scott M. Damrauer, Peter Studer

Current address: Division of Vascular Surgery, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Studer

Contributed equally to this work with: Scott M. Damrauer, Peter Studer

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cleide G. da Silva

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher R. Longo

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haley E. Ramsey

Current address: University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eva Csizmadia

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gautam V. Shrikhande

Current address: Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Salvatore T. Scali

Current address: Division of Vascular Surgery, Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Towia A. Libermann

Affiliation Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Manoj K. Bhasin

mbhasin@bidmc.harvard.edu (MKB) (MB); cferran@bidmc.harvard.edu (CF) (CF)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christiane Ferran

mbhasin@bidmc.harvard.edu (MKB) (MB); cferran@bidmc.harvard.edu (CF) (CF)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Biology Research and the Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 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: CF SMD PS CGdS MKB. Performed the experiments: CRL HER GVS STS EC. Analyzed the data: SMD PS CGdS TL MKB CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAL. Wrote the paper: SMD PS CGdS MKB CF.