Khurana, Rahul N.
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Oden, Neal L.
VanVeldhuisen, Paul C.
Scott, Ingrid U.
Blodi, Barbara A.
Ip, Michael S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Eye Institute (1U10EY023533, 1U10EY023529, 1U10EY023521)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2020
Revised: 5 November 2020
Accepted: 13 November 2020
First Online: 7 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Rahul N. Khurana, M.D.: serves as a consultant for Allergan (Irvine, CA), Apellis (Waltham, MA), Bausch + Lomb (Rochester, NY), Genentech (South San Francisco, CA), Merck & Co (Kenilworth, NJ), and Regeneron (Tarrytown, NJ); and has grant support from Allergan (Irvine, CA), Chengdu Kanghong (Shanghai, China), Clearside Biomedical (Alpharetta, GA), Roche (Basil, Switzerland), and Santen (Tokyo, Japan).Neal L. Oden, Ph.D.: work supported by grant 1U10EY023529 from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.Paul C. VanVeldhuisen, Ph.D.: work supported by grant 1U10EY023529 from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.Ingrid U. Scott, M.D., M.P.H.: serves as Principal Investigator and Chair of SCORE2, which is funded by the National Eye Institute, and has served on the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee of clinical trials sponsored by Novartis (Basel, Switzerland).Barbara A. Blodi, M.D.: No financial disclosures.Michael S. Ip, M.D.: Dr. Ip is a consultant for the following: Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Genentech (South San Francisco, CA), Allergan (Irvine, CA), Regeneron (Tarrytown, NJ), RegenxBio (Rockville, MD), Apellis (Waltham, MA), Aerie Pharmaceuticals (Durham, NC), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, GA), Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA), Cell Lineage Therapeutics (Carlsbad, CA), Clearside Biomedical (Alpharetta, GA).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.