Tourbah, Ayman
Gout, Olivier
Vighetto, Alain
Deburghgraeve, Véronique
Pelletier, Jean
Papeix, Caroline
Lebrun-Frenay, Christine
Labauge, Pierre
Brassat, David
Toosy, Ahmed
Laplaud, David-Axel
Outteryck, Olivier
Moreau, Thibault
Debouverie, Marc
Clavelou, Pierre
Heinzlef, Olivier
De Sèze, Jérôme
Defer, Gilles
Sedel, Frédéric
Arndt, Carl
Funding for this research was provided by:
MedDay Pharmaceuticals
Article History
First Online: 28 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study, and editorial support for the preparation of this manuscript as well as open access fee, was funded by MedDay Pharmaceuticals.
: Ayman Tourbah received consulting and review activities fees and support for travel to meetings from MedDay Pharmaceuticals. Ahmed Toosy received speaker honoraria from Biomedia, Serono Symposia International Foundation, and Bayer, and meeting expenses from Biogen Idec. He is the local principal investigator for clinical trials in multiple sclerosis funded by MedDay Pharmaceuticals. Oliver Gout received personal compensation for scientific advisory boards and funding for travel and/or speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec, Novartis, Sanofi-Genzyme, Merck-Serono, MedDay, and Teva. David-Axel Laplaud received grants, consultancy fees or honoraria, and payment for lectures including service on speaker’s bureaus from Merck, Biogen, Sanofi-Genzyme, Roche, and Novartis. Alain Vighetto, Christine Lebrun-Frenay, Jérôme De Sèze, and Carl Arndt received consultancy fees or honoraria from MedDay Pharmaceuticals. Jean Pelletier received unconditional research grants from Merck, Novartis, and Roche; consulting fees or honorarium from Biogen, Genzyme, MedDay Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Novartis, Roche, and Teva; and support for travel to meetings for the study, manuscript preparation or other purposes from Biogen, Genzyme, MedDay Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Novartis, Roche, and Teva. Pierre Clavelou received consulting fees or honoraria from Biogen, Roche Merck, Teva, Novartis, and Genzyme. Frédéric Sedel is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of MedDay Pharmaceuticals. Giles Defer received personal compensation for scientific advisory boards and funding for travel and/or speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec, Novartis, Sanofi-Genzyme, Merck-Serono, and Teva; and institutional research grants from Merck-Serono, Biogen Idec, Sanofi-Genzyme, and Novartis. Véronique Deburghgraeve, Caroline Papeix, Pierre Labauge, David Brassat, Olivier Outteryck, Thibault Moreau, Marc Debouverie, and Olivier Heinzlef have nothing to declare.
: 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. The conduct of the study was overseen by an independent data safety monitoring board.
: All subjects gave their written informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study.