About the Authors

Danielle L. Gomez

Affiliation Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, St. Petersburg, FL, United States of America

Marci O’Driscoll

Affiliation Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, St. Petersburg, FL, United States of America

Timothy P. Sheets

Current Address: Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Ralph H. Hruban

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jose Oberholzer

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

James J. McGarrigle

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Michael J. Shamblott

mshamblo@health.usf.edu

Affiliations Children’s Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, St. Petersburg, FL, United States of America, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

Under a licensing agreement between National Stem Cell, Inc. and the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Shamblott is entitled to a share of royalty received by the University on sales of products/technologies described in this article. The terms of this arrangement are being managed by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. The cells and processes described here are disclosed in United States Patent Application Number 14/434,517 and International Application Number PCT/US2013/064790 entitled Human Endocrine Progenitors from Adult Pancreatic Tissue. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG MO TS MJS JO. Performed the experiments: DG MO TS JM MJS. Analyzed the data: RH MO DG MJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH JO JM MJS. Wrote the paper: DG RH MO MJS.