About the Authors

Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice

Current address: Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lindsey Wolf

Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffry Deckenback

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael R. Hamblin

Affiliations Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ira M. Herman

ira.herman@tufts.edu

Affiliation Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, The Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Wound Care Partners, LLC. 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: TNDR LW JD MRH IMH. Performed the experiments: TNDR LW JD. Analyzed the data: TNDR MRH IMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRH IMH. Wrote the paper: TNDR IMH.