About the Authors

Cordelia Ziraldo

Contributed equally to this work with: Cordelia Ziraldo, Yoram Vodovotz

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Joint Carnegie Mellon University – University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoram Vodovotz

Contributed equally to this work with: Cordelia Ziraldo, Yoram Vodovotz

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rami A. Namas

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Khalid Almahmoud

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Victor Tapias

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qi Mi

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Sports Medicine and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Derek Barclay

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bahiyyah S. Jefferson

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guoqiang Chen

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Timothy R. Billiar

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ruben Zamora

zamorar@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YV TRB RZ. Performed the experiments: RAN BSJ VT DB GC. Analyzed the data: CZ YV VT QM KWA TRB RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YV VT TRB RZ. Wrote the paper: CZ YV TRB RZ.