About the Authors

Hani Salehi-Had

Contributed equally to this work with: Hani Salehi-Had, Mi In Roh

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mi In Roh

Contributed equally to this work with: Hani Salehi-Had, Mi In Roh

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Giani

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Toshio Hisatomi

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shintaro Nakao

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ivana K. Kim

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Evangelos S. Gragoudas

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Demetrios Vavvas

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Samira Guccione

guccione@stanford.edu

Affiliation Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Lucas Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Joan W. Miller

Affiliation Angiogenesis Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no financial interests to disclose. Samira Guccione is a named inventor on the patent application for the therapy used in this paper. There is no commercialization of the application. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS-H SG JWM TH DV. Performed the experiments: HS-H MIR AG TH SN IKK ESG SG. Analyzed the data: HS-H MIR AG SG JWM DV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG JWM DV TH SN. Wrote the paper: HS-H MIR AG SG JWM DV.