About the Authors

Katherine A. Ruppert

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

Current address: Hope Biosciences, Sugarland, TX, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Karthik S. Prabhakara

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Naama E. Toledano-Furman

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

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sanjna Udtha

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Austin Q. Arceneaux

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Hyeonggeun Park

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Hope Biosciences, Sugarland, TX, United States of America

An Dao

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hope Biosciences, Sugarland, TX, United States of America

Charles S. Cox

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Scott D. Olson

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

scott.d.olson@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KAR, HP, and AD are paid employees of Hope Bio and have received salary support for their role in this study. SDO and CSC have both received research support from sponsored research agreements between the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Hope Bio. SDO is a Guest Editor on the “Stem Cell Plasticity in Tissue Repair and Regeneration” Call for Papers for PLoS ONE. Hope Bio produces and markets HB-AdMSCs and HB-AdMSC-related products. There are no other patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.