About the Authors

Cordelia Ziraldo

Affiliations Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alexey Solovyev

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ana Allegretti

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shilpa Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

M. Kristi Henzel

Affiliation Spinal Cord Injury/Disorders Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gwendolyn A. Sowa

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David Brienza

Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gary An

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Qi Mi

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoram Vodovotz

vodovotzy@upmc.edu

Affiliations Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: YV and GA are inventors on U.S. Patent No. 8,165,819 “Modeling Wound Healing”.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ AY GA QM YV. Performed the experiments: CZ. Analyzed the data: CZ AA SK MKH DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAS AS. Wrote the paper: CZ GAS GA YV. Designed and oversaw clinical data collection: GAS. Designed and oversaw clinical data management: DB.