About the Authors
- Yanling Ouyang
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Yanling Ouyang, Uwe Pleyer
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Uwe Pleyer
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Yanling Ouyang, Uwe Pleyer
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Qing Shao
-
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Pearse A. Keane
-
Affiliation NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom
- Nicole Stübiger
-
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Antonia M. Joussen
-
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
- Srinivas R. Sadda
-
Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Florian M. Heussen
-
* E-mail: florian.heussen@gmail.com
Affiliation Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Department of Ophthalmology, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
Dr. Keane has received a proportion of his funding from the Department of Health's NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Drs. Keane and Heussen have received travel grants from the Allergan European Retina Panel. Dr. Joussen received financial compensation for lectures from Novartis, Allergan Inc. and Bayer AG. Dr. Pleyer has been the Principal Investigator/Consultant for Abbott, Alcon, Allergan, Amgen, Bausch and Lomb, Bayer/Schering, Centocor, Esba Tech, Novartis but has no commercial interests or financial relationships to any agent, device, or technique. Dr. Sadda is a co-inventor of Doheny intellectual property related to optical coherence tomography that has been licensed by Topcon Medical Systems. Dr Sadda is a member of the scientific advisory board for Heidelberg Engineering. Dr Sadda also receives research support from Carl Zeiss Meditec, Optos, and Optovue, Inc. Please note, although Dr. Sadda is a co-inventor of Doheny intellectual property related to optical coherence tomography (OCT) that has been licensed by Topcon Medical Systems, the authors have used a Spectralis OCT system (Spectralis, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany) in this study. Thus, there is no patent relating to material pertinent to this article. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: YO FMH UP. Performed the experiments: YO QS NS PAK SRS AMJ. Analyzed the data: YO QS FMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRS. Wrote the paper: YO FMH PAK.