About the Authors

Alfonso Santiago

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, ELEM biotech, Barcelona, Spain

Constantine Butakoff

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ELEM biotech, Barcelona, Spain

Beatriz Eguzkitza

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain

Richard A. Gray

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Karen May-Newman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, California, United States of America

Pras Pathmanathan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Vi Vu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, California, United States of America

Mariano Vázquez

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mariano.vazquez@bsc.es

Affiliations Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, ELEM biotech, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AS, MV, BE and CB have acted as consultants for Medtronic PLC related to Medtronic’s HVAD. KMN and VV have an ongoing research study for Abbott, Inc for work on Abbott’s HeartMate III. RG and PP need to include the following statement: “The mention of commercial products, their sources, or their use in connection with material reported herein is not to be construed as either an actual or implied endorsement of such products by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services”.