Dr Devin holds board membership with Alcon, Allergan, Bayer, and Novartis; consults with Alcon, Allergan, Bayer, Novartis, Ophthotech, and Thea; receives payment for lectures, including service on speakers’ bureaus, from Alcon, Allergan, Bayer, and Novartis; and receives payment for development of educational presentations from Alcon, Allergan, Bayer, and Novartis. Dr Mauget-Faÿsse receives consulting fees or honoraria, with fees going to the institution, from Molecular
Partners and support for travel to meetings BKM120 for the study of other purposes from Molecular Partners. Relevant financial activities outside the submitted work include board membership in Bayer and Novartis; payment for lectures, including service on speakers’ bureaus, with fees going to the institution; from Bayer, Heidelberg, Novartis, and Thea; travel/accommodation/meeting expenses unrelated to activities listed, with fees going to the institution from Bayer, Heidelberg, Novartis, and Thea. Dr Kolář receives consulting honoraria
from Molecular Partners. Relevant financial activities outside the submitted work include consultancy with Alcon, Bayer, and Novartis and payment for lectures, including service on speakers’ bureaus, from Alcon, Bayer and Novartis. Dr Wolf-Schnurrbusch work under consideration for publication: payment for gradings to institution. Dr Framme holds board membership with Allergan, Bayer and Novartis, is a consultant for Bayer, and receives payment for lectures, including service on speakers’ bureaus, from Bayer, Heidelberg and Novartis. Dr Gaucher
holds board membership in Allergan, Bayer and Novartis BIBF1120 and receives payment for development of educational presentations, with fees going to the institution, from Novartis; and receives travel/accommodation/meeting expenses unrelated to activities listed from Alcon, Bausch & Lomb, Bayer, and Novartis. Dr Querques receives consulting fees or honoraria from Molecular Partners; holds board membership in Alimera, Allergan and Bayer; and is a consultant to Alcon, Alimera, Allergan, Bayer, Bausch & Lomb, Molecular Partners, Novartis, and Ophthotech. Dr Stumpp holds employment, patents and stock/stock options in Molecular Partners. Dr Wolf has Bay 11-7085 received a grant, with fee to the institution, from Molecular Partners; consulting fees or honoraria, with fees to the institution, from Molecular Partners; support for travel to meetings for the study of other purposes from Molecular Partners; is a board member of EURETINA; receives consultancy fees that go to the institution from Allergan, Bayer, Heidelberg Engineering, Novartis, and Optos; and receives fees for expert testimony, with fees going to the institution, from Bayer. Molecular Partners AG, Zurich, Switzerland, provided support for the study and participated in study design; conducted the study; and provided data collection, management and interpretation. The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under the identifier: NCT01086761.