About the Authors

Hideyo Hirai

hhirai@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Naoka Kamio

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Gang Huang

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and the Division of Pathology, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Akiko Matsusue

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Shinpei Ogino

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Nobuhiko Kimura

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Sakiko Satake

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Eishi Ashihara

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Translational Physiology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan

Jiro Imanishi

Affiliation Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Daniel G. Tenen

Affiliations Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Taira Maekawa

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH GH. Performed the experiments: HH NK AM SO NK SS. Analyzed the data: HH GH EA JI DGT TM. Wrote the paper: HH.