About the Authors

Salvador Pastor-Idoate

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Vision Regeneration (MVR) Lab at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and NIHR/ Wellcome Trust Manchester CRF, Manchester, United Kingdom

Richard Bonshek

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, National Specialist Ophthalmic Pathology Service, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Luciane Irion

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, National Specialist Ophthalmic Pathology Service, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Isaac Zambrano

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Eye Bank, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Paul Carlin

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Operating Theatre Services, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Aleksandr Mironov

Affiliation Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Paul Bishop

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

David McLeod

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Paulo Eduardo Stanga

retinaspecialist@btinternet.com

Affiliations Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Vision Regeneration (MVR) Lab at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and NIHR/ Wellcome Trust Manchester CRF, Manchester, United Kingdom, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SPI RB LI PC AM PB DM PES. Data curation: SPI RB LI AM. Formal analysis: SPI RB LI PC PB PES. Funding acquisition: PES. Investigation: SPI PB DM PES. Methodology: SPI PES RB LI AM. Project administration: PES. Resources: AM RB LI IZ PC. Supervision: SPI PB DM PES. Validation: SPI RB LI AM. Visualization: SPI RB LI IZ PB DM PES. Writing – original draft: SPI PES. Writing – review & editing: SPI RB PB DM PES.