About the Authors

Andreas Matthäus Bader

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kristin Klose

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Karen Bieback

Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Dirk Korinth

Affiliation Labor Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Maria Schneider

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Martina Seifert

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Yeong-Hoon Choi

Affiliation Heart Center, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Andreas Kurtz

Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Volkmar Falk

Affiliation Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christof Stamm

stamm@dhzb.de

Affiliations Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMB KK YHC AK CS. Performed the experiments: AMB DK M. Schneider. Analyzed the data: AMB KK DK CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB DK M. Schneider M. Seifert. Wrote the paper: AMB DK CS. Interpretation of data: AMB KK KB DK M. Schneider M. Seifert YHC AK VK CS. Manuscript revision: KK KB YHC AK VF CS.