Zabek, Olga
Camenzind Zuche, Hanna
Müller, Ursula
Scholl, Hendrik P. N.
Rickmann, Annekatrin
della Volpe Waizel, Maria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6588-4842
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften (YTCR 11/17)
Article History
Received: 6 May 2020
Revised: 1 September 2020
Accepted: 2 October 2020
First Online: 10 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Scholl is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Gensight Biologics; Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Gyroscope Therapeutics Ltd.; Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Johnson & Johnson); Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.; Novartis Pharma AG (CORE); and Retinagenix LLC. Dr. Scholl is a paid consultant of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Guidepoint.Dr. Scholl is member of the Data Monitoring and Safety Board/Committee of ReNeuron Group Plc/Ora Inc. and member of the Steering Committee of Novo Nordisk (FOCUS trial).Dr. Scholl is co-director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) which is constituted as a non-profit foundation and receives funding from the University of Basel, the University Hospital Basel, Novartis, and the government of Basel-Stadt.These arrangements have been reviewed and approved by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. Johns Hopkins University and Bayer Pharma AG have an active research collaboration and option agreement. These arrangements have also been reviewed and approved by the University of Basel (Universitätsspital Basel, USB) in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.Dr. Hendrik Scholl is a principal investigator of grants at the USB sponsored by the following entity: IVERIC bio (Ophthotech Corporation), Kinarus AG, and Novartis Pharma AG. Grants at USB are negotiated and administered by the institution (USB) which receives them on its proper accounts. Individual investigators who participate in the sponsored project(s) are not directly compensated by the sponsor but may receive salary or other support from the institution to support their effort on the project(s).All other authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organisation or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licencing arrangements) or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: 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 or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The sponsor had no role in the design or conduct of this research.