About the Authors
- Akihiro Horii
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Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Olympus America Inc., Center Valley, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Xiumei Wang
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Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Fabrizio Gelain
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Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bioscience and Biotechnology Department, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
- Shuguang Zhang
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Shuguang@mit.edu
Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
SZ is one of the inventors of the self-assembling peptides and also a co-founder of 3DM, Inc., a MIT startup that licenses the peptide scaffold patents to BD Biosciences for research distribution. We both purchased RADA16-I (PuraMatrix) from BD Biosciences and received as a gift from 3DM.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ FG AH. Performed the experiments: FG AH XW. Analyzed the data: SZ FG AH XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG AH XW. Wrote the paper: SZ FG AH XW.