About the Authors

Vidyullatha Vasireddy

Affiliation Jacobs Retina Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Venkata R. M. Chavali

Affiliation Jacobs Retina Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Victory T. Joseph

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rajendra Kadam

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Jonathan H. Lin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Jamison

Affiliation Opthy-DS Inc., Mattawan, Michigan, United States of America

Uday B. Kompella

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Geereddy Bhanuprakash Reddy

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India

Radha Ayyagari

rayyagari@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Jacobs Retina Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors and the commercial company, Opthy-DS Inc, where one of the authors Jeffrey A. Jamison is employed, do not have any competing interests. Though Dr. Jamison is employed by the commercial company, the authors confirm adherence to the policies of PLoS ONE for sharing the data and material.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VV UBK GBR RA. Performed the experiments: VV VC VJ JJ RK. Analyzed the data: VV VC JHL VJ JJ RK UBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UBK JHL JJ RA. Wrote the paper: VV JJ VC VJ JHL UBK RA.