About the Authors

Svenja Deuchler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

s.deuchler@icloud.com

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ralf Schubert

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Pneumological-immunological Laboratory, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Pankaj Singh

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Adonis Chedid

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Natallia Brui

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ninel Kenikstul

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thomas Kohnen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Hanns Ackermann

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Frank Koch

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

Frank Koch and Pankaj Singh are working as consultants for Alimera. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no financial interests to declare.