Negussie, Ayele H.
de Ruiter, Quirina M. B.
Britton, Hugh
Donahue, Danielle R.
Boffi, Quentin
Kim, Young-Seung
Pritchard, William F.
Moonen, Chrit
Storm, Gert
Lewis, Andrew L.
Wood, Bradford J.
Article History
Received: 24 February 2020
Accepted: 9 December 2020
First Online: 12 January 2021
Competing interests
: Professor. Andrew Lewis and Dr. Hugh Britton are employees of Biocompatibles UK Ltd., a BTG now Boston Scientific company. Ayele H. Negussie, Quirina M. de Ruiter, Quentin Boffi, Danielle R. Donahue, Young-Seung Kim, William F. Pritchard, Chrit Moonen, Gert Storm, and Bradford J. Wood have no competing financial interest. NIH and Biocompatibles UK Ltd have a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement and shared intellectual property. AL, HB, BW, WP, and AN are named inventors on bead-related intellectual property owned by BTG and NIH/US Government. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors alone and do not reflect the opinion of the NIH or the US Government. The mention of commercial products, their source, or their use in connection with material reported herein is not to be construed as either an actual or implied endorsement of such products by the National Institutes of Health.