About the Authors

Tadanori Mammoto

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jing Chen

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elisabeth Jiang

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amanda Jiang

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lois E. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald E. Ingber

Affiliations Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Akiko Mammoto

akiko.mammoto@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital and 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: TM JC AM LS. Performed the experiments: TM AM EJ AJ. Analyzed the data: TM JC LS AM EJ AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM JC AM. Wrote the paper: TM AM DI.