Prof. Manuela Martins-Green is a Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of California, Riverside. She came to the USA from Portugal on a Fulbright Fellowship and received her Ph.D. in Zoology with an emphasis in Developmental Biology from the UCD in December 1987. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the LBNL and NRSA and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University before joining the UC Riverside faculty in 1993 till present. She is an internationally known researcher in the field of response to injury (including injury caused by tobacco toxins), wound healing, and tissue engineering and pioneered the role of chemokines in wound healing and angiogenesis. She has also developed a murine model of chronic wounds to study the basic cell and molecular mechanisms of chronic wound initiation and development. She has won several awards, and is also a fellow of AAAS; her research has been funded by NCI, NIGMS, NAIAD, AHA, and TRDRP and she has served on review panels for several agencies, including NIH, DOD and AHA. Her current research focuses on understanding the cell and molecular mechanisms involved in the initiation of wound chronicity.