Creating a stem cell niche in the inner ear using self-assembling peptide amphiphiles

• Akihiro J. Matsuoka ,

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

  * E-mail: amatsuok@nm.org

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Hugh Knowles Center for Hearing Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1066-6514

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• Zafar A. Sayed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Nicholas Stephanopoulos,

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

  Current address: Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America; School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

  Affiliation Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Eric J. Berns,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Anil R. Wadhwani,

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

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Zachery D. Morrissey,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Duncan M. Chadly,

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

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Shun Kobayashi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Alexandra N. Edelbrock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Tomoji Mashimo,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation The Institute of Experimental Animal Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Charles A. Miller,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Tammy L. McGuire,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Samuel I. Stupp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• John A. Kessler

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

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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