About the Authors

Nan Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Chiang, Jan M. Schwab

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jan M. Schwab

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Chiang, Jan M. Schwab

Current address: Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie and Experimentelle Neurologie, Campus-Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabrielle Fredman

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kie Kasuga

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon Gelman

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles N. Serhan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cnserhan@zeus.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Brigham and Women's Hospital is assigned patents on lipoxins that are subjects of licensing agreements and consultant arrangements for C.N.S.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS NC. Performed the experiments: NC JS GF KK. Analyzed the data: CS SG NC JS GF KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS SG. Wrote the paper: CS NC. Other: Contributed to writing the paper: SG JS.