About the Authors

Michael S. Stalvey

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

mstalvey@peds.uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Viktoria Havasi

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

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Katherine L. Tuggle

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

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Dezhi Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Susan Birket

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Steve M. Rowe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Eric J. Sorscher

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.