About the Authors

Sunil M. Kurian

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunil M. Kurian, Kevin Ferreri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kevin Ferreri

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunil M. Kurian, Kevin Ferreri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Chia-Hao Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ivan Todorov

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ismail H. Al-Abdullah

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Rawson

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Yoko Mullen

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Daniel R. Salomon

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Fouad Kandeel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fkandeel@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics, Diabetes, and Metabolism Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.