About the Authors

ByoungWook Bang

Contributed equally to this work with: ByoungWook Bang, Eunhye Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Eunhye Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: ByoungWook Bang, Eunhye Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Utah-Inha DDS and Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

JinHee Maeng

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Utah-Inha DDS and Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Keunsu Kim

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Utah-Inha DDS and Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Joo Ha Hwang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Suong-Hyu Hyon

Roles Methodology

Affiliation BMG Incorporated, Kyoto, Japan

Woogi Hyon

Roles Methodology

Affiliations BMG Incorporated, Kyoto, Japan, School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan

Don Haeng Lee

Roles Conceptualization

LDH@inha.ac.kr

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Utah-Inha DDS and Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

Authors EL, JHM, and KK are employees of Utah-Inha DDS. Author SHH is an employee of BMG Incorporated. Author DHL is the founder of Nextbiomedical Co., Ltd. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the Author Contributions section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.