About the Authors

Jean-François Pittet

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-François Pittet, Hidefumi Koh

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hidefumi Koh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-François Pittet, Hidefumi Koh

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Xiaohui Fang

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karen Iles

Affiliations Departments of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sarah Christiaans

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Naseem Anjun

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Brant M. Wagener

Affiliation Departments of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dae Won Park

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Republic of Korea

Jaroslaw W. Zmijewski

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michael A. Matthay

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jérémie Roux

Jeremie_Roux@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, 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: JFP HK JR. Performed the experiments: HK XF KI SC NA BMW JR. Analyzed the data: JFP HK MAM JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFP XF DWP JWZ MAM JR. Wrote the paper: JFP JR.