About the Authors

Charlotte A. Willmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Charlotte A. Willmann, Hatim Hemeda

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Hatim Hemeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Charlotte A. Willmann, Hatim Hemeda

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Lisa A. Pieper

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Michael Lenz

Affiliation Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Jie Qin

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering – Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Sylvia Joussen

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Stephanie Sontag

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering – Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Paul Wanek

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering – Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Bernd Denecke

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Herdit M. Schüler

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Martin Zenke

Affiliations Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany, Institute for Biomedical Engineering – Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Wolfgang Wagner

wwagner@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Technology, Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW HH MZ WW. Performed the experiments: CW HH LP SJ SS HS. Analyzed the data: CW HH LP ML JQ SJ SS PW BD HS WW. Wrote the paper: CW HH WW.