About the Authors

Hannah J. Levis

h.levis@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

Gary S. L. Peh

Affiliation Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Kah-Peng Toh

Affiliation Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Rebekah Poh

Affiliation Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Alex J. Shortt

Affiliation Department of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

Rosemary A. L. Drake

Affiliation TAP Biosystems, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Jodhbir S. Mehta

Affiliations Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

Julie T. Daniels

Affiliation Department of Ocular Biology and Therapeutics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Patent filed PCT/GB2011/000845 - Biomimetic Corneal Tissue. Authors on the patent are Julie Daniels, Rosemary Drake and Hannah Levis. However, this patent is not expected to provide any financial gain to the authors based on the publication of this manuscript. Additionally Rosemary Drake is a scientific officer at TAP Biosystems. 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: HL GP RD JM JD AS. Performed the experiments: HL GP K-PT RP AS. Analyzed the data: HL GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL GP RD JM JD AS. Wrote the paper: HL GP JM JD K-PT RP AS.