About the Authors

Joshua S. O’Connell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

‡ JSO and BL authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bo Li

Roles Investigation

‡ JSO and BL authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andrea Zito

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abdalla Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marissa Cadete

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Niloofar Ganji

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ethan Lau

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mashriq Alganabi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nassim Farhat

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carol Lee

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Simon Eaton

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Section, NIHR BRC Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Robert Mitchell

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Micregen Ltd, Thames Valley Science Park, Reading, United Kingdom

Steve Ray

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Micregen Ltd, Thames Valley Science Park, Reading, United Kingdom

Paolo De Coppi

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Section, NIHR BRC Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Ketan Patel

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Micregen Ltd, Thames Valley Science Park, Reading, United Kingdom

Agostino Pierro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

agostino.pierro@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Translational Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

RM, SR, PD, and KP are stockholder of Micregen Ltd, this relationship had no effect on study design, analysis, or interpretation of results, and this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declared they had no conflict of interest.