About the Authors

Aruna Ramachandran

Contributed equally to this work with: Aruna Ramachandran, Samudra S. Gangopadhyay

Affiliations Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samudra S. Gangopadhyay

Contributed equally to this work with: Aruna Ramachandran, Samudra S. Gangopadhyay

Affiliations Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ramaswamy Krishnan

Affiliations Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sandeep A. Ranpura

Current address: Syngene International Limited, Bangalore, India

Affiliations Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kavitha Rajendran

Affiliation Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sumati Ram-Mohan

Affiliation Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle Mulone

Affiliation Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward M. Gong

Current address: Children’s Memorial Hospital, Division of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliations Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rosalyn M. Adam

rosalyn.adam@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Urological Diseases Research Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR SG RK SR RMA. Performed the experiments: AR SG RK SR KR SR-M MM EMG RMA. Analyzed the data: AR SG RK SR KR SR-M EMG RMA. Wrote the paper: AR SG RMA.