About the Authors

Ryan C. Middleton

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryan C. Middleton, Oleg A. Karpov

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

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Oleg A. Karpov

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryan C. Middleton, Oleg A. Karpov

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

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mario Fournier

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

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Simion Kreimer

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

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mitra Mastali

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Weixin Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Liang Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Norbert F. Voelkel

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

Affiliation Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jennifer E. Van Eyk

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eduardo Marbán

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael I. Lewis

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

Michael.Lewis@cshs.org

Affiliations Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Competing Interests

Dr. Marbán owns founder’s equity in and serves as an unpaid advisor to Capricor Inc. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.