About the Authors

Verena Köberle

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Thomas Pleli

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Christian Schmithals

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Eduardo Augusto Alonso

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Jörg Haupenthal

Current address: Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Department of Drug Design and Optimization, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Halvard Bönig

Affiliation German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg-Hessen, Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology of the University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Jan Peveling-Oberhag

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Ricardo M. Biondi

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Bernd Kronenberger

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Oliver Waidmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Albrecht Piiper

piiper@med.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP VK OW. Performed the experiments: VK EAA TP CS HB JH. Analyzed the data: VK TP AP CS JH JPO RMB OW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB. Wrote the manuscript: AP VK OW EAA JPO RMB SZ BK.