About the Authors

Weina Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Weina Ma, Sheng Lu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, No. 3 People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Sheng Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weina Ma, Sheng Lu

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Pei Pan

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, No. 3 People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Parisa Sadatmousavi

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Yongfang Yuan

nmxyyf@yahoo.cn

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, No. 3 People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

P. Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY PC. Performed the experiments: WM SL PP PS. Analyzed the data: SL WM PP PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC YY. Wrote the paper: WM SL PP YY PC.