About the Authors

John Paul SanGiovanni

jpsangio@post.harvard.edu

Affiliation Clinical Trials Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jing Chen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Przemyslaw Sapieha

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Christopher M. Aderman

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreas Stahl

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Eye Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Traci E. Clemons

Affiliation The EMMES Corp., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Emily Y. Chew

Affiliation Clinical Trials Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lois E. H. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, The Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Jing Chen acts as an editor at PLOS ONE. Dr. Clemons is an employee of the EMMES Corp., Rockville. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPSG JC PS LEHS. Performed the experiments: JPSG JC PS CMA. Analyzed the data: JPSG JC CMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TEC EYC LEHS. Wrote the paper: JPSG JC PS CMA AS TEC EYC LEHS.