Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy with Functionalized Fullerenes: Quantitative Structure-activity Relationships

Kazue Mizuno^1,2, Timur Zhiyentayev^1,3, Liyi Huang^1,4,5, Sarwat Khalil^1,6, Faria Nasim^1,6, George P Tegos^1,4, Hariprasad Gali⁷, Ashlee Jahnke⁷, Tim Wharton⁷ and Michael R Hamblin^1,4,8*

¹Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA

²Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan

³Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

⁴omi_departments of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

⁵Department of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated College & Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

⁶Aga Khan Medical School, Karachi, Pakistan

⁷Lynntech Inc, College Station, TX, USA

⁸Harvard-MIT Divisions of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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