About the Authors
- Stanislaw Schastak
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* E-mail: stas@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Svitlana Ziganshyna
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Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Burkhard Gitter
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Affiliation Research & Development, Biolitec AG, Jena, Germany
- Peter Wiedemann
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Thomas Claudepierre
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Competing Interests
Dr. Schastak is co-inventor for the patent US000006410568B1: “Porphyrins and their use as photosensitizer”. T.C. is supported by a grant from Novartis-Pharma Germany; terms of the contract do not, however, cover the present study. B.G. is affiliated with Biolitec AG, one of the funders of this study. The company agreed to published the present results and agreed to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The work described in this manuscript represents a proof of concept of a technique. There are no plans to patent the methodology or to protect further any of the information contained in this article. This situation does not alter the authors' adherence to all the Plos ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TC. Performed the experiments: SZ BG. Analyzed the data: SS SZ BG PW TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS TC. Wrote the paper: SS PW TC.