About the Authors

Constance Holman

Affiliation Medical Neurosciences Program, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sophie K. Piper

Affiliations NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Center for Stroke Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ulrike Grittner

Affiliations Center for Stroke Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department for Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Antonios Diamantaras

Affiliation Medical Neurosciences Program, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jonathan Kimmelman

Affiliation Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Bob Siegerink

Affiliation Center for Stroke Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ulrich Dirnagl

ulrich.dirnagl@charite.de

Affiliations NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Center for Stroke Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH SKP UG AAD JK BS UD. Performed the experiments: CH AAD SKP UG BS. Analyzed the data: CH AAD SKP UG BS. Wrote the paper: CH SKP UG AAD JK BS UD.