About the Authors

Huiqiang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqiang Wang, Nanhai G. Chen

Affiliation Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Nanhai G. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiqiang Wang, Nanhai G. Chen

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Boris R. Minev

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America, UCSD Division of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Martina Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Richard J. Aguilar

Affiliation Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Qian Zhang

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Julia B. Sturm

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Falko Fend

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Yong A. Yu

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Joseph Cappello

Affiliation Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ulrich M. Lauer

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Aladar A. Szalay

aaszalay@genelux.com

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, Rebecca & John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, and Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

HW, NGC, BRM, RJA, QZ, YAY, JC and AAS are employees and shareholders of Genelux Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NGC AAS. Performed the experiments: HW NGC MZ RJA QZ JBS FF UML. Analyzed the data: HW NGC FF UML AAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRM. Wrote the paper: HW NGC JC AAS. Designed the clinical trial: YAY UML.