About the Authors

Jarel K. Gandhi

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Fukutaro Mano

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Raymond Iezzi Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen A. LoBue

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Brad H. Holman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael P. Fautsch

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Timothy W. Olsen

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jose S. Pulido

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Alan D. Marmorstein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Marmorstein.alan@mayo.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

JSP and ADM have ownership interests in LAgen Laboratories LLC. ADM serves as CEO of LAgen Laboratories LLC. TWO has ownership of iMacular Regeneration LLC, none of the technology used in this study is relevant. However, none of the disclosures pertain directly to this paper and none of the companies provided financial support for this paper.