About the Authors

Daniel P. Howsmon

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Uwe Kruger

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Stepan Melnyk

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

S. Jill James

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Juergen Hahn

hahnj@rpi.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DPH UK SJJ JH. Data curation: SM SJJ. Formal analysis: DPH UK. Funding acquisition: JH. Investigation: DPH SM UK. Methodology: DPH UK SM SJJ JH. Project administration: JH. Resources: SM SJJ. Software: DPH UK. Supervision: SJJ JH. Validation: DPH UK JH. Visualization: DPH. Writing – original draft: DPH. Writing – review & editing: DPH UK SJJ JH.