Solms, Alexander
Willmann, Stefan
Reinecke, Isabel
Spiro, Theodore E.
Peters, Gary
Weitz, Jeffrey I.
Mueck, Wolfgang
Garmann, Dirk
Schmidt, Stephan
Zhang, Liping
Fox, Keith A. A.
Berkowitz, Scott D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4408
Article History
First Online: 23 April 2020
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: This analysis, including its design, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, were funded by Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany, and Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Raritan, NJ, USA. The writing of the report and decision to submit the work for publication were carried out jointly by the authors, some of whom are employees of Bayer AG and Janssen Research & Development, LLC. All authors had access to the study data. Dirk Garmann, Wolfgang Mueck, Alexander Solms and Stefan Willmann are employees of Bayer AG; Isabel Reinecke is an employee of Bayer AB; Scott D. Berkowitz and Theodore E. Spiro are employees of Bayer U.S., LLC. This work was conducted within the scope of their employment, and no additional payment was received. Gary Peters and Liping Zhang are employees of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, and own stock in Johnson & Johnson. This work was conducted within the scope of their employment, and no additional payment was received. Keith A. A. Fox has received grants and honoraria relating to this work from Bayer AG and Janssen Research & Development, LLC, and he has received grants for unrelated work from AstraZeneca and honoraria from Sanofi/Regeneron and Verseon. Stephan Schmidt is a paid consultant for Bayer AG. Jeffrey I. Weitz is a consultant for and has received honoraria from Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo, Ionis, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer and Portola.
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