About the Authors

Anna Bertram

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Bertram, Jan Fuge

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

bertram.anna@mh-hannover.de

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jan Fuge

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Bertram, Jan Fuge

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany

Hendrik Suhling

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany

Igor Tudorache

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Axel Haverich

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Tobias Welte

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany

Jens Gottlieb

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.