About the Authors

Ryuichi Hotta

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuichi Hotta, Masahiro Ohira

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Masahiro Ohira

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryuichi Hotta, Masahiro Ohira

Affiliations Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Toshiharu Matsuura

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Izumi Muraoka

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Panagiotis Tryphonopoulos

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Ji Fan

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Akin Tekin

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Gennaro Selvaggi

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

David Levi

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Phillip Ruiz

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Camillo Ricordi

Affiliation Cell Transplant Center, Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Rodrigo Vianna

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Hideki Ohdan

Affiliation Division of Frontier Medical Science, Programs for Biomedical Research, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Herman Waldmann

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Andreas G. Tzakis

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, United States of America

Seigo Nishida

snishida@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Division of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RH MO HO AGT HW SN. Formal analysis: RH MO SN. Funding acquisition: SN MO. Investigation: RH MO TM IM PT JF AT GS DL PR CR RV AGT HW SN. Methodology: RH MO SN. Writing – original draft: RH MO SN. Writing – review & editing: RH MO SN.