About the Authors

Zari P. Dumanian

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Viktor Tollemar

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Jixing Ye

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Minpeng Lu

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Yunxiao Zhu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and the Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Junyi Liao

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and the Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Guillermo A. Ameer

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and the Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Tong-Chuan He

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Russell R. Reid

rreid@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Molecular Oncology Laboratory and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development (RRR and TCH) receive royalties on sales of iCAL cells from Applied Biologicals, Inc. Other authors declare no conflict of interests. We have read the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and declare that our competing interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RRR TCH GAA. Data curation: RRR TCH. Formal analysis: VT ZD ML. Funding acquisition: RRR TCH GAA. Investigation: ZD VT JY JL. Methodology: RRR TCH GAA. Project administration: RRR TCH GAA. Resources: JY ML JL YZ. Supervision: TCH RRR GAA. Validation: TCH RRR GAA. Visualization: TCH VT ZD. Writing – original draft: VT ZD. Writing – review & editing: RRR TCH GAA.