About the Authors

Mafalda Cacciottolo

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

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Yujia Li

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

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Justin B. Nice

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

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael J. LeClaire

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Ryan Twaddle

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Ciana L. Mora

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Stephanie Y. Adachi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Meredith Young

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Jenna Angeles

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Kristi Elliott

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Minghao Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

msun@capricor.com

Affiliation Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: All authors are employees of Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. This does not alter the adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.