About the Authors

Sang O. K. Song

sas261@pitt.edu

Affiliations CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Justin Hogg

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhi-Yong Peng

Affiliation CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert Parker

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John A. Kellum

Affiliation CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gilles Clermont

Affiliation CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS RSP JAK GC. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS JH RSP GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS JAK GC. Wrote the paper: SS GC. Experimental Data used in modeling: ZP JAK.