About the Authors

Teresa Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Tsai, Mohannad Alwees

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Mohannad Alwees

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Tsai, Mohannad Alwees

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Mohammad Ali Asaad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Janine Theile

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Vinodh Kakkassery

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

Affiliations Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

H. Burkhard Dick

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Tim Schultz

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ TS and SCJ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Stephanie C. Joachim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

stephanie.joachim@rub.de

‡ TS and SCJ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.