About the Authors

Maryna Perepelyuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Maryna Perepelyuk, LiKang Chin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

LiKang Chin

Contributed equally to this work with: Maryna Perepelyuk, LiKang Chin

Affiliations The Institute for Medicine and Engineering, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Clinical Research Center for Diabetes, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

Xuan Cao

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anne van Oosten

Affiliations The Institute for Medicine and Engineering, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vivek B. Shenoy

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul A. Janmey

rgwells@mail.med.upenn.edu (RGW); janmey@mail.med.upenn.edu (PAJ)

Affiliations The Institute for Medicine and Engineering, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rebecca G. Wells

rgwells@mail.med.upenn.edu (RGW); janmey@mail.med.upenn.edu (PAJ)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP LC XC AVO VBS PAJ RGW. Performed the experiments: MP LC AVO. Analyzed the data: MP LC XC VBS PAJ RGW. Wrote the paper: MP LC XC VBS PAJ RGW.