About the Authors
- Thomas C. Schulz
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* E-mail: tschulz@viacyte.com
Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Holly Y. Young
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Alan D. Agulnick
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- M. Josephine Babin
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Emmanuel E. Baetge
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Anne G. Bang
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Anindita Bhoumik
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Igor Cepa
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Rosemary M. Cesario
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Carl Haakmeester
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Kuniko Kadoya
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Jonathan R. Kelly
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Justin Kerr
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Laura A. Martinson
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Amanda B. McLean
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Mark A. Moorman
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Janice K. Payne
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Mike Richardson
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Kelly G. Ross
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Eric S. Sherrer
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Xuehong Song
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Alistair Z. Wilson
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Eugene P. Brandon
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Chad E. Green
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Evert J. Kroon
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Olivia G. Kelly
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Kevin A. D’Amour
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Affiliation Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Allan J. Robins
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Affiliations Viacyte, Inc., Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Viacyte, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The indicated authors are employees or former employees of Viacyte, receiving salary and stock options. The paper describes or references intellectual property owned by Viacyte ([1] Green C, Yu X, Bang A, Brandon E, Kelly O, Agulnick A, Baetge E, D’Amour K, Schulz TC, Robins A. Stem cell aggregate suspension compositions and methods of differentiation thereof. US Patent 8,008,075. [2] Robins A, Schulz, T. Methods and compositions for feeder-free pluripotent stem cell media containing human serum. US Patent application 20100311164. [3] Robins A, Schulz T. Compositions and methods useful for culturing differentiable cells. US Patent application 20080268534), and a third-party product that generates royalty income (LifeTechnologies: StemPro hESC SFM). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CEG HYY AGB ADA KK LAM MAM AB EEB EPB TCS EJK OGK KAD AJR. Wrote the paper: TCS. Performed scaled differentiation runs: HYY JRK RMC JKP EJK OGK KAD. Contributed to establishing the process, optimization, molecular and histological analyses; cell banking; or animal studies: TCS HYY CEG ESS JRK RMC JKP AGB ADA CH MR AZW KGR MJB IC JK KK LAM MAM AGB EPB EJK OGK ABM XS KAD. Contributed to writing of manuscript: KAD OGK CEG HYY EJK EPB AJR.