About the Authors
- Maria-Louisa Izamis
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Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Herman Tolboom
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Affiliation Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Basak Uygun
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Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Francois Berthiaume
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Martin L. Yarmush
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Affiliations Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Korkut Uygun
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* E-mail: uygun.korkut@mgh.harvard.edu
Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
All authors of the paper, with the exception of Dr. Francois Berthiaume, are named as inventors on several pending patent applications relevant to the method described in this article as follows: 1. (WO2011140241) METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING TISSUES AND ORGANS, 2. (WO2011002926) ISOLATED ADULT CELLS, ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, REHABILITATED ORGANS, RESEARCH ROOLS, ORGAN ENCASEMENTS, ORGAN PERFUSION SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING AND UTILIZING THE SAME. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MLI KU FB MLY BU. Performed the experiments: MLI HT. Analyzed the data: MLI KU FB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLY. Wrote the paper: MLI FB KU.