About the Authors
- Yoshiyuki Kumada
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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
- Shuguang Zhang
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* E-mail: shuguang@mit.edu
Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
SZ is the discoverer and one of the inventors of the self-assembling peptides and also a co-founder of 3DM, Inc., an MIT startup that licenses the peptide scaffold patents to BD Biosciences for research distribution. The authors both purchased RADA16 (PuraMatrix) from BD Biosciences and received as a gift from 3DM. The authors also filed a patent disclosure to MIT Technology Licensing Office from this study. The funder of this study has no influence whatsoever on the results reported here. One of the authors, SZ, is an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YK SZ. Performed the experiments: YK. Analyzed the data: YK SZ. Wrote the paper: YK SZ.