About the Authors

Albert S. Jun

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Leslie Cope

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Caroline Speck

Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaojun Feng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Seakwoo Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Huan Meng

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Abdel Hamad

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shukti Chakravarti

schakra1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC ASJ AH. Performed the experiments: CS HM XF. Analyzed the data: SC LC. Wrote the paper: SC ASJ. Troubleshooting ELISAs, preparation of figures and tables: SL.