About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Current address: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Affiliation Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ning Jiang

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.

Affiliation Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Veronika I. Zarnitsyna

Affiliation Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Arkadiusz G. Klopocki

Affiliation Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Rodger P. McEver

Affiliations Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Cheng Zhu

cheng.zhu@bme.gatech.edu

Affiliations Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ NJ RPM CZ. Performed the experiments: YZ VIZ AGK. Analyzed the data: YZ CZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGK RPM. Wrote the paper: YZ NJ CZ.