About the Authors

Eliyahu V. Khankin

Contributed equally to this work with: Eliyahu V. Khankin, Walter P. Mutter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walter P. Mutter

Contributed equally to this work with: Eliyahu V. Khankin, Walter P. Mutter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hector Tamez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hai-Tao Yuan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

S. Ananth Karumanchi

sananth@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ravi Thadhani

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors Eli Khankin, Walter Mutter, S. Ananth Karumanchi and Ravi Thadhani are listed as co-inventors on provisional patents filed by the Harvard Hospitals that is related to use of soluble epo receptor for the diagnosis and therapy of anemia.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK WM SAK RT. Performed the experiments: EK WM. Analyzed the data: EK WM HT HTY SAK RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT. Wrote the paper: EK WM SAK RT.