About the Authors

Ena Ray Banerjee

Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Affiliation Center for Allergy and Inflammation and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael A. Laflamme

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thalia Papayannopoulou

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Kahn

Affiliation Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Charles E. Murry

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William R. Henderson Jr

joangb@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Center for Allergy and Inflammation and Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERB WRH. Performed the experiments: ERB. Analyzed the data: ERB WRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAL TP MK CEM. Wrote the paper: ERB WRH.