Small-molecule-directed, efficient generation of retinal pigment epithelium from human pluripotent stem cells

Affiliations

• ¹ Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287;
• ² Unit on Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892;
• ³ Stem Cell Core Facility, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032;
• ⁴ Neural Stem Cell Institute, Rensselaer, NY 12144;
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305; Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305;
• ⁶ Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089;
• ⁷ Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287; Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287; Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287 [email protected].