About the Authors

David Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Priya Mathews

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gavin Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shanna VanCourt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Esen Akpek

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

esakpek@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Clinic, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.