About the Authors

Youngja Park

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, College of Pharmacy, Korea University, Sejong City, Korea

Kichun Lee

skylee@hanyang.ac.kr (KL); dpjones@emory.edu (DPJ)

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Thomas R. Ziegler

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Greg S. Martin

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gautam Hebbar

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Brani Vidakovic

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dean P. Jones

skylee@hanyang.ac.kr (KL); dpjones@emory.edu (DPJ)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP DPJ TRZ BV. Performed the experiments: YP KL. Analyzed the data: YP KL BV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH GM TRZ DPJ BV. Wrote the paper: YP KL GH DPJ.