About the Authors

Inês Laíns

Contributed equally to this work with: Inês Laíns, Daniela Duarte, António S. Barros

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Daniela Duarte

Contributed equally to this work with: Inês Laíns, Daniela Duarte, António S. Barros

Affiliation CICECO- Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO/UA), Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

António S. Barros

Contributed equally to this work with: Inês Laíns, Daniela Duarte, António S. Barros

Affiliation CICECO- Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO/UA), Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Ana Sofia Martins

Affiliation CICECO- Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO/UA), Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

João Gil

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

John B. Miller

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Marco Marques

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Tânia Mesquita

Affiliation Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal

Ivana K. Kim

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Maria da Luz Cachulo

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Demetrios Vavvas

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Isabel M. Carreira

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Joaquim N. Murta

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Rufino Silva

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Coimbra, Portugal, Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal

Joan W. Miller

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Deeba Husain

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Ana M. Gil

agil@ua.pt

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation CICECO- Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO/UA), Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IL IMC JWM RS JNM DH AMG. Data curation: IL JG JBM MM TM IKK MLC DV RS JWM DH. Formal analysis: DD ASM ASB IL AMG. Funding acquisition: IL RS JNM JNM DH AMG. Investigation: DD ASM ASB IL DH RS AMG. Methodology: AMG ASB. Project administration: IL AMG. Resources: IL TM RS MLC DH JWM JBM IKK DM AMG ASB. Software: ASB. Supervision: DH JNM RS AMG. Validation: IL AMG. Visualization: DD ASM ASB AMG. Writing – original draft: IL DD ASB AMG. Writing – review & editing: IL DH JWM RS IKK DV ASB AMG.