About the Authors

Anne Schlutt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Taskforce Refinement, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Katarina Riesner

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

Affiliations Taskforce Refinement, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Merle Kochan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Berlin, Germany

Ann-Kathrin Meß

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Berlin, Germany

Denise Jahn

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Taskforce Refinement, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Isabella Lurje

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Wiebke Werner

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Felix Heymann

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Olivia Kershaw

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

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Frank Tacke

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany

Bernhard Hiebl

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour (ITTN), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Linda Hammerich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Linda.hammerich@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Taskforce Refinement, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

A.S. and L.H. own a utility model for the injection tunnel in Germany (Registration No. 20 2024 100 448). All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.