About the Authors

Sridhar R. Allam

Contributed equally to this work with: Sridhar R. Allam, Bernd Krüger

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bernd Krüger

Contributed equally to this work with: Sridhar R. Allam, Bernd Krüger

Affiliation V. Medizinische Klinik, Universitätsmedizin Mannheim, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Anita Mehrotra

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Schiano

Affiliations Division of Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bernd Schröppel

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Barbara Murphy

Barbara.Murphy@mssm.edu

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA BK AM TS BS BM. Performed the experiments: SA BK AM. Analyzed the data: SA BK AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS BM. Wrote the paper: SA BS BM.