About the Authors

Alexander D. Malkin

malkina@upmc.edu

Affiliations McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert P. Sheehan

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shibin Mathew

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William J. Federspiel

Affiliations McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Heinz Redl

Affiliation Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in AUVA center, Vienna, Austria

Gilles Clermont

Affiliation CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADM RPS SM WJF GC HR. Performed the experiments: ADM RPS SM HR. Analyzed the data: ADM RPS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR GC. Wrote the paper: ADM RPS SM.