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Authors
Liu, Zengping
Ilmarinen, Tanja
Tan, Gavin S. W.
Hongisto, Heidi
Wong, Edmund Y. M.
Tsai, Andrew S. H.
Al-Nawaiseh, Sami
Holder, Graham E.
Su, Xinyi
Barathi, Veluchamy Amutha
Skottman, Heli
Stanzel, Boris V. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-1539
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Academy of Finland (Key project funding)
Singapore National Eye Centre (Vision Funds, HREF)
Singapore Singhealth (Academic Clinical Programme)
National Medical Research Council and Ministry of Health Singapore (TA/MOH-0055/2017)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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Article History
Received: 2 April 2021
Accepted: 18 May 2021
First Online: 27 July 2021
Declarations
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: Tampere University has National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Dnro 1426/32/300/05) approval to conduct research on human embryos. The institute also has supportive statements of the Ethical Committee of the Pirkanmaa Hospital District to derive, culture, and differentiate hESC lines (Skottman/R05116). No new cell lines were derived for this study.All animal studies were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of SingHealth (Singapore). All animals were handled in accordance with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) statement for the use of animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research and performed in American Animal Association LAC (AAALAC) International-approved facility.
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: Boris Stanzel holds a US Patent 9,980,851 on an instrument (RPE scraper) used in this study. Speaker honoraria from C. Zeiss Meditec and Geuder to BVS. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
