About the Authors

Jiong Wang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shannon P. Hilchey

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Ollivier Hyrien

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Nelson Huertas

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sheldon Perry

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Manojkumar Ramanunninair

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Doris Bucher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Martin S. Zand

Martin_zand@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and the Rochester Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Rochester Center for Health Informatics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ JW OH MR SPH. Performed the experiments: JW NH SP SPH. Analyzed the data: JW OH MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR DB. Wrote the paper: JW MZ SPH OH RM.