About the Authors

Wenjia Liu

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

Affiliations Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH, Aachen International University, Aachen, Germany

Decan Jiang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Mareike Schulz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH, Aachen International University, Aachen, Germany

Constança Figueiredo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Daniele Dondossola

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General and Liver Transplant Surgery Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Franziska Alexandra Meister

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Dora Krisztina Tihanyi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Doctoral School of Clinical Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Arianeb Mehrabi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Rene Hany Tolba

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH, Aachen International University, Aachen, Germany

Zoltan Czigany

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoltan Czigany, Lisa Ernst

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

zoltan.czigany@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Lisa Ernst

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoltan Czigany, Lisa Ernst

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH, Aachen International University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.