Chang, William G.
Niklason, Laura E.
Article History
Received: 23 August 2016
Revised: 18 January 2017
Accepted: 5 February 2017
First Online: 27 March 2017
Competing interests
: LEN is a founder and shareholder in Humacyte, Inc., which is a regenerative medicine company. Humacyte produces engineered blood vessels from allogeneic smooth muscle cells for vascular surgery. LEN’s spouse has equity in Humacyte, and LEN serves on Humacyte’s Board of Directors. LEN is an inventor on patents that are licensed to Humacyte and that produce royalties for LEN. LEN has received an unrestricted research gift to support research in her laboratory at Yale. Humacyte did not fund these studies, and Humacyte did not influence the description or interpretation of the findings in this report. WGC is funded by NIH K08EB018978 and LEN by NIH R01 HL083895, and HL127386. WGC declares no competing interests.