About the Authors

Dagmar Klein

Contributed equally to this work with: Dagmar Klein, Ryosuke Misawa, Valia Bravo-Egana

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ryosuke Misawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Dagmar Klein, Ryosuke Misawa, Valia Bravo-Egana

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Valia Bravo-Egana

Contributed equally to this work with: Dagmar Klein, Ryosuke Misawa, Valia Bravo-Egana

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Nancy Vargas

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Samuel Rosero

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Julieta Piroso

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Hirohito Ichii

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Oliver Umland

Affiliation Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jiang Zhijie

Affiliation Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Nicholas Tsinoremas

Affiliations Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Camillo Ricordi

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Luca Inverardi

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Juan Domínguez-Bendala

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ricardo L. Pastori

rpastori@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK VBE RLP. Performed the experiments: DK RM VBE SR JP NV HI NT JZ OU. Analyzed the data: DK RLP OU VBE CR LI NT JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OU HI NT JZ. Wrote the paper: DK JDB OU RLP.