About the Authors

Ivaylo Gentschev

Contributed equally to this work with: Ivaylo Gentschev, Meike Müller

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Meike Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Ivaylo Gentschev, Meike Müller

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Marion Adelfinger

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Stephanie Weibel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Friedrich Grummt

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Martina Zimmermann

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

Michael Bitzer

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

Martin Heisig

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine,Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Qian Zhang

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rebecca and John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yong A. Yu

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rebecca and John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nanhai G. Chen

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rebecca and John Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jochen Stritzker

Affiliations Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Ulrich M. Lauer

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Aladar A. Szalay

aaszalay@genelux.com

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: IG QZ YAY NGC JS and AAS are employees and shareholders of Genelux Corporation. However, no direct financial support was provided by Genelux for the completion of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. All of the other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG MM SW MA FG MZ JS UML AAS. Performed the experiments: IG MM SW JS. Analyzed the data: IG MM MA SW MH NGC JS UML AAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB QZ YAY. Wrote the paper: IG UML AAS.