About the Authors

Vijayaganapathy Vaithilingam

Contributed equally to this work with: Vijayaganapathy Vaithilingam, Cherry Fung

Affiliations Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, Materials, Science and Engineering, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Cherry Fung

Contributed equally to this work with: Vijayaganapathy Vaithilingam, Cherry Fung

Affiliation Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia

Sabina Ratnapala

Affiliation Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia

Jayne Foster

Affiliation Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia

Vijesh Vaghjiani

Affiliation Centre for Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Ursula Manuelpillai

Affiliation Centre for Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Bernard E. Tuch

bernie.tuch@csiro.au

Affiliations Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, Materials, Science and Engineering, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: V. Vaithilingam CF SB JF BT. Performed the experiments: V. Vaithilingam CF SB JF V. Vaghjiani. Analyzed the data: V. Vaithilingam CF SB JF V. Vaghjiani UM BT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UM BT. Wrote the paper: V. Vaithilingam CF JF UM BT.