About the Authors

Sean A. Hardy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Nishani S. Mabotuwana

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Lucy A. Murtha

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Brianna Coulter

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Sonia Sanchez-Bezanilla

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Priority Research Centre’s for Healthy Lungs and GrowUpWell, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Mohammed S. Al-Omary

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Tharindu Senanayake

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Svenja Loering

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Priority Research Centre’s for Healthy Lungs and GrowUpWell, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Malcolm Starkey

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Priority Research Centre’s for Healthy Lungs and GrowUpWell, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Randall J. Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Edyth and Eli Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Peter P. Rainer

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Philip M. Hansbro

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Priority Research Centre’s for Healthy Lungs and GrowUpWell, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Centre for inflammation, Centenary Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia, University of Technology, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

Andrew J. Boyle

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Andrew.boyle@newcastle.edu.au

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.