About the Authors

Brian C. Gilger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Liujiang Song

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Eye Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Tomoko Hasegawa

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Eye Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jacklyn H. Salmon

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jacquelyn J. Bower

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Eye Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Naveen Vridhachalam

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Eye Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Elisabeth Collins

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Darby Roberts

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jessica Bagel

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Referral Center for Animals Models, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Caitlyn Molony

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Charles Vite

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Matthew L. Hirsch

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

mhirsch@email.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Eye Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

MLH and LS are coinventors of the AAV-optARSB technology and patent application has been filed. No other authors declare a conflict of interest.