Program Listing

J. A. Schwartz¹, R. Price², J. Wang¹, K. Sang¹, R. J. Stafford³, A. M. Shetty³, K. Pham⁴ and C. L. Coleman¹ — ¹Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ³UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston and ⁴Visualase, Inc., Houston

K. Sang¹, R. Price², J. A. Schwartz¹, J. Wang¹ and J. D. Payne¹ — ¹Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston and ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

J. Wang¹, A. M. Elliot², R. J. Stafford², J. D. Payne¹ and G. Goodrich¹ — ¹Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston and ²UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

J. Wang¹, A. M. Elliot², A. M. Shetty², J. D. Hazle² and J. A. Schwartz¹ — ¹Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston and ²UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

B. Wang¹, E. Yantsen¹, T. Larson¹, S. Sethuraman¹, K. Sokolov^1,2 and S. Y. Emelianov¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin and ²UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

J. M. Rios and J. L. Conger — Texas Heart Institute, Houston

J. Porterfield and J. Pearce — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

C. J. Hartley^1,2, A. K. Reddy^1,2 and G. E. Taffet^1,2 — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston

M. W. Mohiuddin and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

Keynote Speaker: Ioannis Kakadiaris — University of Houston, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Joel D Morrisett^1,2, Christof Karmonik^1,2, Douglas Brown^1,2, Shawna Johnson^1,2, Paul Sovelius^1,2, Kay Kimball^1,2, Alan Lumsden^1,2 and Christie Ballantyne^1,2 — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston

V. V. Mody¹, K. Abdelraouf¹, M. Nounou¹, C. Karmonik² and M. Bikram¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston

A. Brazdeikis, S. Sarangi and I. C. Tan — University of Houston, Houston

T. Dinh and B. H. Jansen — University of Houston, Houston

S. Liu^1,2 and B. Sheth² — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin and ²University of Houston, Houston

U. Patidar¹, G. Zouridakis¹, F. Baluch¹, I. Stevenson² and D. Subramanian² — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²Rice University, Houston

D. Viswanathan and B. H. Jansen — University of Houston, Houston

G. Zouridakis, M. Gide, A. A. Lasagabaster and J. Diaz — University of Houston, Houston

A. Estrada — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

G. Vargas, A. Recinos, III, T. Shilagard, C. Lee, H. Sun and A. Brasier — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

A. M. Larson and A. Yeh — Texas A&M University, College Station

D. Jacob¹, J. A. Izatt² and B. Applegate¹ — ¹Texas A&M University, College Station and ²Duke University, Durham, NC

K. Kumar¹, J. C. Condit¹, A. McElroy², N. J. Kemp², K. Hoshino¹, T. E. Milner¹ and J. X. Zhang¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin and ²CardioSpectra, Inc., San Antonio

A. S. Paranjape, J. Dewelle, B. Elmaanaoui, H. G. Rylander and T. E. Milner — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

Keynote Speaker: Michael S Sacks — University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

L. Shi and Z. He — Texas Tech University, Lubbock

I. Larina and M. E. Dickinson — Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Jin Fei and Ioannis Pavlidis — University of Houston, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Yong Yue and Hemant D Tagare — Yale University, New Haven, CT

C. Zhao, T. Lang and J. Ji — Texas A&M University, College Station

N. Situ, X. Yuan and G. Zouridakis — University of Houston, Houston

D. Gerber, Jr and B. H. Jansen — University of Houston, Houston

B. K. Bonala and B. H. Jansen — University of Houston, Houston

X. Zhu, A. Kayali and B. H. Jansen — University of Houston, Houston

M. A. Coskun¹, L. Varghese¹, S. L. Reddoch², E. M. Castilo², D. A. Pearson², K. A. Loveland², A. C. Papanicolaous² and B. Sheth¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston

W. G. Besio¹, R. Currier², A. J. Paintdakhi², K. Gale³ and A. Medvedev³ — ¹University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ²Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA and ³Georgetown University, Washington, DC

P. Frenger — A Working Hypothesis, Inc., Houston

S. Jewett, L. Reese, P. Christian and S. Shalhoub — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

A. Chen, W. Soofi and M. Wei — Rice University, Houston

J. Barker, D. Bundy, A. Matthews and R. Melson — Texas A&M University, College Station

N. Kamat, T. Barth, A. Cottle, K. Shah and C. Vaucher — Rice University, Houston

T. Moss, A. M. Norman, M. Oehmichen and K. N. Schexnayder — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

D. Ladd, B. Lovett, G. Sequeira and S. Warren — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

F. Babiloni — University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

M. G. Ghosn¹, E. F. Carbajal¹, N. A. Befrui¹, V. V. Tuchin² and K. V. Larin^1,2 — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²Saratov State University, Russia

J. M. Hirschburg and A. Yeh — Texas A&M University, College Station

S. Baranov, E. Sobol and T. E. Milner — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

N. Rajaram and J. W. Tunnell — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

J. Shah, J. Mendeloff and S. Y. Emelianov — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

Keynote Speaker: Craig A Simmons — University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

C. A. Durst and K. J. Grande-Allen — Rice University, Houston

S. K. Geffert and S. J. Kleis — University of Houston, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Tianming Liu^1,2,3 and Stephen Wong^1,2,3 — ¹The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston and ³Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Keynote Speaker: Khader Hasan, Arash Kamali and Jenifer Juranek — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

R. L. Dickinson^1,2, W. D. Erwin¹, L. Bidaut¹, H. A. Macapinlac¹ and R. E. Wendt, III¹ — ¹UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston and ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA

S. Sarangi, I. C. Tan and A. Brazdeikis — University of Houston, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Ravi Bellamkonda — Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speaker: Christine E Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

K. Breffeilh, C. Needham, R. Collins and B. Jarrell — Texas A&M University, College Station

K. Crenshaw, D. Jerkins, R. Kampe, A. Lee and J. Roberts — Rice University, Houston

J. Compo, P. Navarro, W. Sprott and B. Wheatley — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

W. Kethman, E. Franca, W. Weaver and L. White — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

R. Currier, J. Grady, P. Quinn and P. Thomas — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

L. Rao¹, Y. Ling¹, R. He², N. G. Frangogiannis³, J. Wang¹, S. F. Nagueh¹ and D. Khoury¹ — ¹The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, ²University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston and ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

S. Wang, J. Chen and M. Valderrabano — The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston

A. Krishna¹, H. Sun², M. Valderrabano³ and J. W. Clark, Jr¹ — ¹Rice University, Houston, ²Proportional Technologies, Inc., Houston and ³The Methodist Hospital, Houston

E. Morales, D. Sevilla and J. H. Pierluissi — University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

J. L. Conger, R. Reul and K. Harms — Texas Heart Institute, Houston

B. C. Hollins, S. Singh, S. A. Gold and D. P. O'Neal — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

J. Mendeloff, J. Shah and S. Y. Emelianov — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

J. Oh^1,2, M. Mehrmohammadi¹, L. Ma¹, S. Ryoo¹, S. Mallidi¹, K. Patel¹, K. P. Johnston¹, K. Sokolov^1,2, T. E. Milner¹ and S. Y. Emelianov¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin and ²UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

E. F. Carbajal¹, M. G. Ghosn¹, N. A. Befrui¹, A. Tellez², J. F. Granada² and K. V. Larin^1,3 — ¹University of Houston, Houston, ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston and ³Saratov State University, Russia

Y. Wang, D. Litvinov and R. C. Willson — University of Houston, Houston

B. Vu, D. Litvinov and R. C. Willson — University of Houston, Houston

R. Gant, Y. Hou, M. A. Grunlan and G. L. Cote — Texas A&M University, College Station

R. B. Pernites, A. Baba, G. Jiang and R. C. Advincula — University of Houston, Houston

A. Agarwal¹, Y. M. Lvov¹ and E. Gonzalez-Toledo² — ¹Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA and ²Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

J. Park and M. J. McShane — Texas A&M University, College Station

R. Long and M. J. McShane — Texas A&M University, College Station

J. Buck^1,2, M. Goffredo², T. Mendez², B. Mott², C. M. Quick² and O. Ley² — ¹F. W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA and ²Texas A&M University, College Station

R. R. Boyle, T. Syciarz, A. J. LaBonte, A. M. Morrow, A. R. Connor and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

D. J. Deer, J. Patel, A. Kohli, N. Scallon, L. Dabney, C. Reyes and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

S. Rasco, A. McCue, C. M. Quick and O. Ley — Texas A&M University, College Station

B. Giron-Palomares, R. Lopez, N. R. Miller and O. Ley — Texas A&M University, College Station

K. Raghavan, A. Kottam, J. Pearce and J. Valvano — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

E. Larson and J. Pearce — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

A. Peters¹, J. E. Moore, Jr¹ and P. Rolland² — ¹Texas A&M University, College Station and ²LaTimone Hospital, Marseilles, France

J. Saltarrelli and K. J. Grande-Allen — Rice University, Houston

V. R. Srinivas and K. J. Grande-Allen — Rice University, Houston

N. Gheewala and K. J. Grande-Allen — Rice University, Houston

K. Feng, X. Chen, M. P. McDougall and S. M. Wright — Texas A&M University, College Station

Y. Liu and J. Ji — Texas A&M University, College Station

X. Chen, K. Feng, M. P. McDougall and S. M. Wright — Texas A&M University, College Station

M. Shih¹, G. Zouridakis¹, C. Karmonik^1,2,3, E. Simpson², H. Haykal² and S. Appel² — ¹University of Houston, Houston, ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston and ³Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

M. H. Wu¹, R. E. Frye² and G. Zouridakis¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

P. Smolen, D. A. Baxter and J. H. Byrne — University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston

A. J. Paintdakhi and W. G. Besio — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

H. Gadi¹, D. W. Moller¹, T. A. Valiente² and A. W. Chiu¹ — ¹Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA and ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

N. E. Yasar^1,2, M. S. Beauchamp² and T. Ro¹ — ¹Rice University, Houston and ²University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston

D. E. Koenig and H. Hofer — University of Houston, Houston

K. L. Sumrall, K. Rispin and R. V. Gonzalez — LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

R. Godley and R. V. Gonzalez — LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

S. Middle, S. Ronald, Y. M. Lvov and D. K. Mills — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

C. Conner, R. Morris, S. Vallurupalli, W. L. Buford, Jr and F. M. Ivey — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

T. T. Clements¹, W. T. Monroe¹, D. J. Giurintano², S. Konecni¹, S. Higgins¹ and J. Jenkins¹ — ¹Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and ²National Hansen's Disease Program, Baton Rouge, LA

K. L. O'Keefe, R. D. Paravina and J. M. Powers — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch, Houston

R. D. Paravina, G. N. Frey, S. Kiat-amnuay and J. M. Powers — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch, Houston

R. D. Paravina, J. G. Welch and J. M. Powers — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch, Houston

S. C. Yu, J. S. Miller and J. L. West

J. Y. Fu, S. Balan, A. S. Potty, V. Nguyen and R. C. Willson — University of Houston, Houston

J. Vanscoy, K. C. Kot, Z. Z. Khaing and C. E. Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

S. Huynh, S. Suri and C. E. Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

R. R. Rosenberger, S. Seidlits, C. C. Massingill, K. R. McCarty and C. E. Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

J. Heisler, S. Seidlits, M. A. Salmon, R. R. Rosenberger and C. E. Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

T. Kim, O. Z. Fisher and N. A. Peppas — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

S. Balkundi¹, N. Veerabadran¹, Y. M. Lvov¹, G. Johnson² and M. Eby² — ¹Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA and ²AFRL/MQLQ, Tyndall, FL

J. Dempsey, M. Kanzelberger and N. A. Peppas — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

M. P. Cuchiara, J. S. Miller and J. L. West — Rice University, Houston

A. Allen, M. K. McHale and J. L. West — Rice University, Houston

M. L. Felipe, R. Ponnapati, J. Y. Park, J. Gouquian and R. C. Advincula — University of Houston, Houston

Q. Zhu¹, A. Hong², O. Srivannavit², Y. Xia¹, P. Yu¹, X. Zhou^2,3, X. Gao¹, W. Gong⁴, D. Zhou⁴ and Y. Ren⁴ — ¹University of Houston, Houston, ²Atactic Technologies, Inc., Houston, ³LC Sciences, Houston and ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

A. Agarwal¹, Z. Zheng¹, V. P. Torchilin² and Y. M. Lvov¹ — ¹Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA and ²Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Y. Xia¹, Y. Yamaoka^2,3, Y. Qi¹, Q. Zhu¹, J. Wang¹, I. Matha¹ and X. Gao¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston, ²Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston and ³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

C. K. Gupta¹, M. Anez¹, C. Putonti², C. Fang¹, G. E. Fox¹, Y. Fofanov¹ and R. C. Willson¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²Loyola University, Chicago, IL

S. Jewett, L. Reese, P. Christian and S. Shalhoub — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

A. Chen, W. Soofi and M. Wei — Rice University, Houston

J. Barker, D. Bundy, A. Matthews and R. Melson — Texas A&M University, College Station

N. Kamat, T. Barth, A. Cottle, K. Shah and C. Vaucher — Rice University, Houston

T. Moss, A. M. Norman, M. Oehmichen and K. N. Schexnayder — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

D. Ladd, B. Lovett, G. Sequeira and S. Warren — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

K. Breffeilh, C. Needham, R. Collins and B. Jarrell — Texas A&M University, College Station

K. Crenshaw, D. Jerkins, R. Kampe, A. Lee and J. Roberts — Rice University, Houston

J. Compo, P. Navarro, W. Sprott and B. Wheatley — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

W. Kethman, E. Franca, W. Weaver and L. White — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

R. Currier, J. Grady, P. Quinn and P. Thomas — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

Keynote Speaker: John T McDevitt — University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

P. Dutta¹, K. Hill², P. G. Datskos³ and M. J. Sepaniak² — ¹University of Houston, Houston, ²University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and ³Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

C. L. Bayer, Y. Loo and N. A. Peppas — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

K. V. Desai and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

L. A. Bright, P. H. Nguyen, S. D. Parr, R. H. Stewart and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

B. Giron-Palomares and O. Ley — Texas A&M University, College Station

J. S. Soares, M. A. Grunlan, J. E. Moore, Jr and K. R. Rajagopal — Texas A&M University, College Station

J. A. Winkler, G. C. Costas, E. Tuzun, J. L. Conger, B. Radovancevic and O. H. Frazier — Texas Heart Institute, Houston

P. G. Weyand¹, R. F. Sandell¹, D. N. Prime¹ and M. W. Bundle^1,2 — ¹Rice University, Houston and ²University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

K. Yarnall¹, E. E. Boeke², M. W. Shrader^3,4 and K. R. Csavina⁵ — ¹Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, ²Medtronic, Inc., Phoenix, AZ, ³The CORE Institute, Sun City West, AZ, ⁴SHRI-CORE Orthopedic Research Labs, Sun City West, AZ and ⁵Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL

C. J. Arellano, C. S. Layne, D. P. O'Connor and M. J. Kurz — University of Houston, Houston

C. P. McGowan^1,2, R. Kram² and R. R. Neptune¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin and ²The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

A. Silverman¹, N. P. Fey¹, A. A. Portillo², J. G. Walden², G. Bosker³ and R. R. Neptune¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin, ²Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital, San Antonio and ³University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio

Keynote Speaker: Robert G Smith — University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Keynote Speaker: Andreas S Tolias — Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Rena Bizios — University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez — Texas A&M University, College Station

Keynote Speaker: E Karathanasis¹, A Annapragada² and Ravi Bellamkonda¹ — ¹Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA and ²University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

A. Annapragada — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

M. Caldorera-Moore, L. Shi and K. Roy — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

E. C. Jackson, P. H. Nguyen, K. S. Bartush and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

K. S. Bartush, E. C. Jackson, P. H. Nguyen, R. H. Stewart and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

A. M. Venugopal, R. H. Stewart, G. A. Laine and C. M. Quick — Texas A&M University, College Station

E. Rahbar¹, J. E. Moore, Jr¹, D. C. Zawieja², A. A. Gashev² and G. L. Cote¹ — ¹Texas A&M University, College Station and ²Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station

R. Calderon, D. Calderon, B. Toombs, R. Radovancevic, A. Aleksic, J. L. Conger, B. Grace, F. J. Clubb, Jr and E. Tuzun — Texas Heart Institute, Houston

M. J. Kurz — University of Houston, Houston

M. Szelistowski and R. V. Gonzalez — LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

K. R. Terrall, M. L. Harper, K. Rispin, S. Ayers and R. V. Gonzalez — LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

B. Xu and B. Garner — Baylor University, Waco

R. Trevino and D. Roberson — University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio

H. Hofer — University of Houston, Houston

D. W. Marshak¹ and D. S. Lebedev² — ¹University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston and ²Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia

D. J. Felleman and H. Lim — University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston

D. K. Murphey^1,2, D. I. Yoshor¹ and M. S. Beauchamp² — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and ²University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

X. Zhang¹, A. S. Potty¹, G. W. Jackson², G. E. Fox¹ and R. C. Willson¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²BioTex, Inc., Houston

R. A. Blidner, R. P. Hammer and W. T. Monroe — Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

S. R. Dietz, O. Z. Fisher and N. A. Peppas — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

E. S. Day, A. M. Gobin, A. R. Lowery and J. L. West — Rice University, Houston

H. Kim, S. T. Laing, P. H. Kee, M. M. Moody, Y. Zou, S. Huang, M. E. Klegerman and D. D. McPherson — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

C. T. Laurencin — University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Keynote Speaker: Jason Hafner — Rice University, Houston

M. Benford¹, I. Chou¹, H. T. Beier¹, M. Wang¹, N. Jing¹, J. Kameoka¹, T. A. Good² and G. L. Cote¹ — ¹Texas A&M University, College Station and ²University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

S. Singh and M. J. McShane — Texas A&M University, College Station

T. S. Ma¹, B. Bozkurt¹, D. Ramachandran² and J. W. Clark, Jr² — ¹Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston and ²Rice University, Houston

D. Ramachandran¹, C. Luo¹, T. S. Ma² and J. W. Clark, Jr¹ — ¹Rice University, Houston and ²Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston

A. Mantha¹, A. Hernandez¹, C. Karmonik², G. Benndorf² and R. Metcalfe¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston

A. Hernandez¹, G. Benndorf², C. Karmonik², A. Mantha¹ and R. Metcalfe¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston

M. A. Lopez, J. S. Mohamed, P. Pardo and A. M. Boriek — Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Keynote Speaker: Steve Kautz^1,2 — ¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and ²Veteran Affairs Medical Center - Gainesville, Gainesville, FL

J. L. Allen¹, M. G. Bowden^2,3, S. Kautz^2,3 and R. R. Neptune¹ — ¹University of Texas at Austin, Austin, ²University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and ³Veteran Affairs Medical Center - Gainesville, Gainesville, FL

K. A. Mossberg — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

B. Fechtel, Z. Bevis, Z. Z. Khaing and C. E. Schmidt — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

I. Klouda, M. C. Hacker, J. D. Kretlow and A. Mikos — Rice University, Houston

J. D. Kretlow, M. C. Hacker, I. Klouda and A. Mikos — Rice University, Houston

J. E. Nichols¹, D. Deyo¹, R. P. Mlcak², J. A. Niles¹, M. L. McClure¹ and J. Cortiella¹ — ¹University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston and ²Shrine Burns Hospital, Galveston

S. S. Khurshid, F. Butt, C. E. Schmidt and N. A. Peppas — University of Texas at Austin, Austin

D. P. O'Neal and G. J. Michalak — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

I. C. Tan, S. Sarangi and A. Brazdeikis — University of Houston, Houston

S. M. Kemper¹, T. Sherlock¹, E. Cacao¹, P. Ruchhoeft¹, R. L. Atmar² and R. C. Willson¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

J. Yu¹, D. Javier¹, N. Nitin¹, M. A. Yaseen¹, B. Anvari^1,2, R. Richards-Kortum¹ and M. S. Wong¹ — ¹Rice University, Houston and ²University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

G. E. Taffet^1,2, P. Yechoor^1,2, L. Small^1,2, A. K. Reddy^1,2, T. T. Pham^1,2, C. J. Hartley^1,2 and M. L. Entman^1,2 — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston

K. Lee^1,2, M. Bujak^1,2, X. Ying^1,2, C. Gonzalez^1,2, P. Zymek^1,2, P. Huebener^1,2 and N. G. Frangogiannis^1,2 — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston

M. Bujak^1,2, C. Gonzalez^1,2, T. Leucker^1,2, P. Zymek^1,2, V. Veeranna^1,2, P. Huebener^1,2, A. Tager³, A. Luster³ and N. G. Frangogiannis^1,2 — ¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston and ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

M. Ionescu¹, G. Benndorf², N. Ebrahimi¹ and R. Metcalfe¹ — ¹University of Houston, Houston and ²The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston

C. Karmonik^1,2,3, J. Bismuth¹, J. Mackey¹ and A. Lumsden¹ — ¹The Methodist Hospital, Houston, ²Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY and ³University of Houston, Houston

S. Vallurupalli, R. Morris, V. Panchbhavi and R. Patterson — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

J. W. Ramsay and R. V. Gonzalez — LeTourneau University, Longview, TX

R. Patterson¹, N. Yazaki¹, C. R. Andersen², N. H. Scott, Jr² and S. F. Viegas² — ¹University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth and ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

C. R. Andersen — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

S. Bouse, J. Swift, S. Bloomfield and H. A. Hogan — Texas A&M University, College Station

S. Nemir, M. K. McHale and J. L. West — Rice University, Houston

H. Park¹, J. S. Temenoff², Y. Tabata³, A. I. Caplan⁴, R. M. Raphael¹, J. A. Jansen⁵ and A. Mikos¹ — ¹Rice University, Houston, ²Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, ³Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁴Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and ⁵Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

X. Guo, H. Park and A. Mikos — Rice University, Houston

L. Gao¹, A. Wada², C. M. Fouletier-Dilling², A. Gobin¹, A. R. Davis², J. L. West¹, E. A. Olmsted-Davis² and M. E. Dickinson^1,2 — ¹Rice University, Houston and ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston