About the Authors

Stefan Weinandy

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Weinandy, Patrick Babczyk

Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Patrick Babczyk

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Weinandy, Patrick Babczyk

Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Agnieszka Dreier

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Ronald E. Unger

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Thomas C. Flanagan

Affiliation School of Medicine & Medical Science, Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

C. James Kirkpatrick

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Martin Zenke

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Doris Klee

Affiliation Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry (ITMC), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Stefan Jockenhoevel

jockenhoevel@hia.rwth-aachen.de

Affiliation Department of Tissue Engineering & Textile Implants, AME - Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ DK MZ RU. Performed the experiments: SW PB. Analyzed the data: SW PB AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD SJ DK. Wrote the paper: SW TF RU CJK.