About the Authors

Ralitsa T. Loewen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralitsa T. Loewen, Eric N. Brown

‡ These authors are co-first authors.

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America, The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Eric N. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralitsa T. Loewen, Eric N. Brown

‡ These authors are co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States of America

Pritha Roy

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America, The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Joel S. Schuman

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America, The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Ian A. Sigal

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America, The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Nils A. Loewen

loewenna@upmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America, The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RTL ENB JSS NAL. Performed the experiments: RTL PR NAL. Analyzed the data: RTL ENB JSS NAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTL ENB PR JSS IAS NAL. Wrote the paper: RTL ENB PR JSS IAS NAL. Designed the software used in analysis: ENB.