About the Authors

Cesar A. Sommer

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

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

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amalia Capilla

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francisco J. Molina-Estevez

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreia Gianotti-Sommer

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicholas Skvir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ignacio Caballero

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sanjib Chowdhury

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gustavo Mostoslavsky

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gmostosl@bu.edu

Affiliations Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.