About the Authors

Laura Dada

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Dada, Angel R. Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Angel R. Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Dada, Angel R. Gonzalez

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daniela Urich

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Saul Soberanes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tomas S. Manghi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sergio E. Chiarella

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Navdeep S. Chandel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

G. R. Scott Budinger

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gökhan M. Mutlu

g-mutlu@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD GMM NSC GRSB. Performed the experiments: ARG DU SS TSM GMM SEC. Analyzed the data: LD ARG SS GRSB GMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD NSC. Wrote the paper: LD ARG DU GRSB GMM.