About the Authors

Francesca D’Addio

Affiliations Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplantation and Internal Medicine Division, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Takuya Ueno

Affiliation Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Clarkson

Affiliations Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Renal Medicine, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland

Baogong Zhu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Vergani

Affiliation Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gordon J. Freeman

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mohamed H. Sayegh

Affiliation Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mohammed Javeed I. Ansari

Affiliation Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paolo Fiorina

Affiliations Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplantation and Internal Medicine Division, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Antje Habicht

antje.habicht@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations Transplantation Research Center, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplant Center Munich - LMU, University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH MJA MS MC. Performed the experiments: AH FD TU BZ AV. Analyzed the data: AH MC FD TU MJA PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GF MS MJA. Wrote the paper: AH MC MJA FD TU PF MS.