About the Authors
- Yun Sil Chang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Sil Chang, Soo Jin Choi
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Soo Jin Choi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Sil Chang, Soo Jin Choi
Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, MEDIPOST Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
- So Yoon Ahn
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Dong Kyung Sung
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Affiliation Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Se In Sung
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Hye Soo Yoo
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Won Il Oh
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Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, MEDIPOST Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
- Won Soon Park
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* E-mail: wonspark@skku.edu
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests: co-authors Soo Jin Choi and Won-il Oh are employed by MEDIPOST Co., Ltd. Co-author Won-il Oh is a board member and holds stocks in MEDIPOST Co., Ltd. Samsung Medical Center and MEDIPOST Co., Ltd. have issued or filed patents for “Method of treating lung diseases using cells separated or proliferated from umbilical cord blood” under the name of Yun Sil Chang, Won Soon Park and Yoon Sun Yang. The relevent application number is: PCT/KR2007/000535. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WSP. Performed the experiments: SYA DKS HSY. Analyzed the data: YSC SIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WIO. Wrote the paper: YSC SJC.