About the Authors

Manuel Jonas Richter

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Jonas Richter, Svenja Lena Tiede

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany, Department of Pneumology, Kerckhoff Heart, Rheuma and Thoracic Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Svenja Lena Tiede

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Jonas Richter, Svenja Lena Tiede

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Natascha Sommer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Thomas Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Werner Seeger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany, Department of Pneumology, Kerckhoff Heart, Rheuma and Thoracic Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ralph Schermuly

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Henning Gall

Henning.Gall@innere.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SLT TS WS HAG RS HG. Data curation: MJR SLT NS TS WS HAG RS HG. Formal analysis: MJR SLT TS HG. Funding acquisition: WS HAG RS. Investigation: SLT TS HG. Methodology: SLT TS HG. Project administration: SLT WS HAG RS HG. Resources: SLT WS HAG RS HG. Supervision: SLT HG. Validation: SLT HG. Visualization: MJR TS HG. Writing – original draft: MJR SLT NS TS WS HAG RS HG. Writing – review & editing: MJR SLT NS TS WS HAG RS HG.