About the Authors

Vindhya Koppaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Vindhya Koppaka, Ying Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Ying Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Vindhya Koppaka, Ying Chen

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Gaurav Mehta

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

David J. Orlicky

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

David C. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

James V. Jester

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Vasilis Vasiliou

vasilis.vasiliou@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC VV. Performed the experiments: VK YC GM. Analyzed the data: VK YC DO VV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ. Wrote the paper: VK YC. Critical revision of the manuscript: DT JJ VV.