About the Authors

Kritika Ramani

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Abhishek V. Garg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chetan V. Jawale

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Heather R. Conti

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Natasha Whibley

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edwin K. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sruti S. Shiva

Affiliation Vascular Medicine Institute, Dept. of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William Horne

Affiliation Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jay K. Kolls

Affiliation Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sarah L. Gaffen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Partha S. Biswas

psb13@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PSB SLG. Data curation: PSB. Formal analysis: KR PSB WH. Funding acquisition: PSB SLG. Investigation: KR AVG CVJ HRC NW SSS PSB. Methodology: PSB SLG. Project administration: PSB. Resources: SSS JKK SLG EKJ. Supervision: PSB. Validation: PSB. Visualization: PSB. Writing – original draft: KR PSB. Writing – review & editing: KR SLG PSB.