M. 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 US from Portugal on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a PhD in 1987 at UC Davis, followed by a National Research Service Award at Berkeley and then as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University before joining the UC Riverside faculty in 1993. She is currently at the highest level (IX) in the professorial scale at the University of California. She has received numerous awards throughout the years in research and teaching including being a fellow of AAAS and the WHS and having received the Oliver Johnson award, the highest award the UC gives to one of its faculty for leadership skills. She has also received the innovation teaching award and the Chancellor award for excellence in mentoring undergraduates in research. She is an internationally recognized researcher in wound healing and pioneered the role of chemokines in wound healing and angiogenesis. In the last 10 years, her research program has focused on understanding how wound chronicity is initiated. She developed a murine model of chronic wounds that mimics closely cell and molecular mechanisms of chronic wound initiation and development in humans. From her numerous studies she has proposed a three-stage treatment for chronic wounds in diabetic patients; a preparatory, an earlier and a later stage treatment. Her findings have lead to initiation of a clinical trial on using this approach to treat DFU