About the Authors

Rahul A. Jonas

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Nanomedicine Translational Think Tank, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Ti-Fei Yuan

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yu-Xiang Liang

Affiliations Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China, State Key Lab of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China

Jost B. Jonas

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

David K. C. Tay

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China

Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke

rutledge@medma.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Nanomedicine Translational Think Tank, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China, State Key Lab of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: REB. Performed the experiments: RAJ Y-XL T-FY REB JBJ. Analyzed the data: RAJ DKCT REB JBJ. Wrote the paper: RAJ REB JBJ.