About the Authors

Xiaoqin Li

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Ryuhei Hayashi

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

ryuhei.hayashi@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (RH); knishida@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Stem Cells and Applied Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tsutomu Imaizumi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Applied Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Basic Research Development Division, ROHTO Pharmaceutical, Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan

Jodie Harrington

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Applied Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford Campus, England, United Kingdom

Yuji Kudo

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Stem Cells and Applied Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Basic Research Development Division, ROHTO Pharmaceutical, Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Takayanagi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Research, Development and Production Department of RAYMEI Inc, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Koichi Baba

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Advanced Device Regenerative Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Visual Regenerative Medicine, Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kohji Nishida

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

ryuhei.hayashi@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (RH); knishida@ophthal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (KN)

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: R.H. is affiliated with the endowed chair of ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. T.I. and Y.K. are employees of ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. H.T. is employed by RAYMEI Inc. All other authors declare that they do not have any competing interests.