About the Authors
- Sean C. Gifford
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Halcyon Biomedical Incorporated, Friendswood, Texas, United States of America
- Briony C. Strachan
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Hui Xia
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Eszter Vörös
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Kian Torabian
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Taylor A. Tomasino
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Gary D. Griffin
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Transfusion Medicine / Blood Donor Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Benjamin Lichtiger
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Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Transfusion Medicine / Blood Donor Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Fleur M. Aung
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Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Transfusion Medicine / Blood Donor Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Sergey S. Shevkoplyas
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: sshevkoplyas@uh.edu
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
S.C.G. is an inventor on US Patent #9,550,016 describing the two-stage approach for passive separation of whole blood. S.C.G. and S.S.S. are inventors on US Patent #9,789,235 describing the controlled incremental filtration technology, and part-owners of Halcyon Biomedical Incorporated, a startup company which would benefit from commercialization of this technology. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. B.C.S., H.X., E.V., K.T., T.A.T., G.D.G., B.L., and F.M.A. declare no conflict of interest.