About the Authors

Melanie Ricke-Hoch

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

hoch.melanie@mh-hannover.de

‡ SIGR and MK contributed equally to this work as first co-authors.

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Elisabeth Stelling

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

‡ SIGR and MK contributed equally to this work as first co-authors.

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Lisa Lasswitz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Antonia P. Gunesch

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Hanover-Braunschweig Site, Braunschweig, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Martina Kasten

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Francisco J. Zapatero-Belinchón

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

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology & Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Graham Brogden

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Gisa Gerold

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology & Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hanover Germany

Thomas Pietschmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research Hannover, Hanover, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Hanover-Braunschweig Site, Braunschweig, Germany

Virginie Montiel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pole of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, and Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium

Jean-Luc Balligand

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pole of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, and Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium

Federica Facciotti

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Emilio Hirsch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Thomas Gausepohl

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Husni Elbahesh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover (TiHo), Hannover, Germany

Guus F. Rimmelzwaan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ), University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover (TiHo), Hannover, Germany

Anne Höfer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hanover, Germany, Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Mark P. Kühnel

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hanover, Germany, Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Danny Jonigk

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

Affiliations Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hanover, Germany, Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Julian Eigendorf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Sports Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Uwe Tegtbur

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Sports Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Lena Mink

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Sports Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Michaela Scherr

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Thomas Illig

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB), Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Axel Schambach

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Hematology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Tobias J. Pfeffer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Andres Hilfiker

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Axel Haverich

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

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

Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany, Department of Cardiovascular Complications of Oncologic Therapies, Medical Faculty of the Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.