Elad Moisseiev and Susanna Park

Elad Moisseiev is a vitreoretinal surgeon in the Department of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a faculty member of the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University, and completed his ophthalmology residency training at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, and vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Susanna Park is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA. She is a vitreoretinal surgeon and clinician scientist who has conducted research on bone marrow stem cell therapy for retinal disease for over ten years.

The authors thank the following collaborators at the University of California Davis: Jan Nolta and Gerhard Bauer of the Institute for Regenerative Cures for the stem cell isolation, Robert Zawadzki for retinal imaging and Zeljka Smit-McBride for microarray analysis.