About the Authors

Naimish R. Patel

npatel@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Medhavi Bole

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cheng Chen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles C. Hardin

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alvin T. Kho

Affiliations Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Justin Mih

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linhong Deng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

James Butler

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Tschumperlin

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Fredberg

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ramaswamy Krishnan

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Henry Koziel

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NP CH RK CC MB JB DT LD HK AK JM JF HK. Performed the experiments: MB CC NP CH RK. Analyzed the data: MB CC NP CH RK JF JB AK HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT JM NP HK JF JB CH RK AK. Wrote the paper: NP HK JF JB RK CH DT AK.