About the Authors

Ramya Chandrasekaran

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

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Colleen Mathieu

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

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Rishi Sheth

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Alexandre P. Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

David Fong

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Robert McCormack

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hani El-Gabalawy

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Suman Alishetty

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Mikell Paige

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Caroline D. Hoemann

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

choemann@gmu.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CDH, Scientific Advisory Board and a shareholder of Chitogenx Inc. (formerly Ortho RTi Inc.); RC, CM, RS, AC, DF, RM, HEG, SA and MP have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.