About the Authors

Shaomei Wang

wangsha@ohsu.edu

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Bin Lu

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Sergei Girman

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jie Duan

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Trevor McFarland

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Qing-shuo Zhang

Affiliation Oregon Stem Cell Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Markus Grompe

Affiliation Oregon Stem Cell Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Grazyna Adamus

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Binoy Appukuttan

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Raymond Lund

Affiliation Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW BL. Performed the experiments: SW BL SG JD TM QsZ. Analyzed the data: SW BL SG JD TM GA BA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QsZ MG GA RDL. Wrote the paper: SW BA. Support works performed in his laboratory: RDL.