About the Authors

Francesca D’Addio

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca D’Addio, Olaf Boenisch, Ciara N. Magee

Affiliations Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplantation Medicine Division, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Olaf Boenisch

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca D’Addio, Olaf Boenisch, Ciara N. Magee

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ciara N. Magee

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca D’Addio, Olaf Boenisch, Ciara N. Magee

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melissa Y. Yeung

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xueli Yuan

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bechara Mfarrej

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Vergani

Affiliations Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplantation Medicine Division, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Mohammed Javeed Ansari

Affiliations Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Paolo Fiorina

Affiliations Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Transplantation Medicine Division, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Nader Najafian

nnajafian@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Paolo Fiorina is a co-author of this paper and he is currently an academic editor for PLOS ONE. However, the authors would like also to re-assure the Editorial Board that this did not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Genzyme as a commercial source and funder. Genzyme provided us with the major compound tested in this paper, the murine anti-thymocyte globulin (mATG). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJA NN OB PF FD. Performed the experiments: FD XY BM OB AV. Analyzed the data: FD NN MJA OB CM MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV PF. Wrote the paper: FD MJA NN OB CM PF.