*Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;
†Cluster of Excellence: Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases, CECAD, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and
‡Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Reprints: Claus Cursiefen, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany (e-mail: [email protected]).
Supported by German Research Foundation (DFG) FOR2240 “(Lymph)angiogenesis and Cellular Immunity in Inflammatory Diseases of the Eye”, Cu 47/4-2 (C. Cursiefen), Cu 47/6-1 (C. Cursiefen), Cu 47/9-1 (C. Cursiefen), and STE1928/4-1 (J. Horstmann) (www.for2240.de); EU COST BM1302 (F. Bock and C. Cursiefen; www.biocornea.eu); EU Horizon 2020 ARREST BLINDNESS (C. Cursiefen; www.arrestblindness.eu); Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne (F. Bock and C. Cursiefen; www.cmmc-uni-koeln.de/home/), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service: V. N. H. Le), Chinese Scholarship Council CSC (Y. Hou).
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
