Adult Cardiac Progenitor Cell Aggregates Exhibit Survival Benefit Both In Vitro and In Vivo

• Michael Bauer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Bauer, Lifeng Kang, Yiling Qiu

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology and Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lifeng Kang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Bauer, Lifeng Kang, Yiling Qiu

  Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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• Yiling Qiu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Bauer, Lifeng Kang, Yiling Qiu

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology and Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jinhui Wu,

  Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Michelle Peng,

  Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Howard H. Chen,

  Affiliation Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Gulden Camci-Unal,

  Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ahmad F. Bayomy,

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology and Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• David E. Sosnovik,

  Affiliations Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ali Khademhosseini ,

  * E-mail: rliao@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (RL); alik@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (AK)

  Affiliations Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ronglih Liao

  * E-mail: rliao@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (RL); alik@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (AK)

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology and Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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