About the Authors

Christian Rossmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Rossmann, Dieter Haemmerich

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

M. A. McCrackin

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Comparative Medicine, Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Kent E. Armeson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Hollings Cancer Center, Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Dieter Haemmerich

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Rossmann, Dieter Haemmerich

haemmer@musc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Clemson Univ., Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CR DH. Data curation: CR MAM KEA DH. Formal analysis: CR KEA DH. Funding acquisition: DH. Investigation: CR MAM DH. Methodology: CR DH. Project administration: DH. Resources: CR MAM KEA DH. Software: CR KEA DH. Supervision: DH. Validation: CR DH. Visualization: CR KEA DH. Writing – original draft: CR KEA DH. Writing – review & editing: CR MAM KEA DH.