About the Authors

Manzar Ashtari

ashtari@email.chop.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Laura Cyckowski

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alborz Yazdi

Current address: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amanda Viands

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kathleen Marshall

Affiliation Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

István Bókkon

Affiliation Vision Research Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Albert Maguire

Affiliations Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Ophthalmology Department, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jean Bennett

Affiliations Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, F. M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

JB, AM, WH, GA, GA, “Method of treating or retarding the development of blindness, United States Patent (Approved April 2012) 2002: JB & AMM waived any potential financial gain. Also, JB is on the scientific advisory board of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Inc. and a founder of GenSight Biologics. 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: MA JB IB. Performed the experiments: MA LC KM JB AM. Analyzed the data: MA LC AV AY KM JB AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA JB KM AM AY IB. Wrote the paper: MA JB IB AY.