About the Authors

Lisa B. Boyette

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Camila Macedo

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Kevin Hadi

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Beth D. Elinoff

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

John T. Walters

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Bala Ramaswami

Affiliation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Geetha Chalasani

Affiliations Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Juan M. Taboas

Affiliations Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Fadi G. Lakkis

Contributed equally to this work with: Fadi G. Lakkis, Diana M. Metes

metesdm@upmc.edu (DMM); lakkisf@upmc.edu (FGL)

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

Affiliations Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Diana M. Metes

Contributed equally to this work with: Fadi G. Lakkis, Diana M. Metes

metesdm@upmc.edu (DMM); lakkisf@upmc.edu (FGL)

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

Affiliations Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LBB CM DMM FGL GC BR. Formal analysis: LBB. Funding acquisition: LBB DMM FGL. Investigation: LBB CM KH JTW JMT. Methodology: LBB CM GC BR JMT DMM FGL. Project administration: LBB DMM FGL. Resources: LBB BDE DMM FGL. Supervision: DMM FGL. Validation: LBB CM DMM FGL. Visualization: LBB. Writing – original draft: LBB. Writing – review & editing: LBB CM DMM FGL.