Boston, Mass.; Padova, Italy; Albuquerque, N.M.; Beijing, People’s Republic of China; and Edison, N.J.
From the Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing Laboratory, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova; Preventive Medicine, University of New Mexico; Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; and the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation.
Received for publication August 31, 2018; accepted February 25, 2019.
Disclosure:Dr. Orgill is a consultant for the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) and KCI, Inc., and receives research funding through a sponsored research agreement from MTF and KCI to Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Mr. Nilsen and Dr. Chnari are employees of MTF. All other authors declare no actual or potential conflict of interests. They report no commercial or financial associations, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence the reported artilce or create a conflict of interest with the information presented. Dr. Giatsidis and Dr. Orgill have filed a patent based on methods described in this article (PCT/US2016/018164: “Methods and Apparatus for Promotion of Angiogenesis and Adipogenesis in Tissues Through the Application of Mechanical Forces”) and hold rights as inventors in accordance to their institutional policies. MTF employees were involved in study design, tissue preparation, description of the process in the Methods and review of the final draft for flow and accuracy. They did not influence the reporting of the results or the final conclusions of the article.
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Giorgio Giatsidis, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Mass. 02115, ggiatsidis@bwh.harvard.edu, Instagram: drgiatsidis, Twitter: @drgiatsidis
Dennis P. Orgill, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Mass. 02115, dorgill@bwh.harvard.edu
