About the Authors

Ellen Poon

Affiliation Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Bin Yan

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Shaohong Zhang

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Computer Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

Stephanie Rushing

Affiliation Center of Cardiovascular Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Wendy Keung

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China

Lihuan Ren

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China

Deborah K. Lieu

Affiliations Center of Cardiovascular Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Lin Geng

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China

Chi-Wing Kong

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China

Jiaxian Wang

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China, Center of Cardiovascular Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Hau San Wong

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Kenneth R. Boheler

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ronald A. Li

ronaldli@hku.hk

Affiliations Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Department of Physiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China, Center of Cardiovascular Research, 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: EP KB RL. Performed the experiments: SR WK LR DL LG CW JW. Analyzed the data: EP BY SZ HW. Wrote the manuscript: EP BY KB RL.