About the Authors

Sean C. Gifford

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

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

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

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

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Taylor A. Tomasino

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gary D. Griffin

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

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

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

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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.