About the Authors

Denise Al Alam

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Melissa Green

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Reza Tabatabai Irani

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sara Parsa

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Soula Danopoulos

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Frederic G. Sala

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jonathan Branch

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Elie El Agha

Affiliation Excellence Cluster in Cardio-Pulmonary Systems, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Giessen Lung Center, Giessen, Germany

Caterina Tiozzo

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Voswinckel

Affiliation Lung Development and Remodelling, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Edwin C. Jesudason

Affiliations Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

David Warburton

Affiliation Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Saverio Bellusci

sbellusci@chla.usc.edu

Affiliations Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Program, Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Excellence Cluster in Cardio-Pulmonary Systems, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Giessen Lung Center, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB EJ RV DW. Performed the experiments: DA MG RI SP JB FS EA SD. Analyzed the data: DA SB CT FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DA SB FS. Wrote the paper: DA SB EJ DW CT.