Mojebi, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2318-8627
Tang, Yuexin
Keeping, Sam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4281-1536
Merchant, Sanjay
Bidadi, Behzad
Zheng, Dandan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6460-4036
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Article History
Received: 13 January 2026
Accepted: 8 April 2026
First Online: 19 May 2026
Declarations
:
: Dandan Zheng, Yuexin Tang, and Sanjay Merchant are employees of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA and are shareholders of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. Behzad Bidadi was an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, and a shareholder of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, at the time of study execution. Ali Mojebi and Sam Keeping are employees of Precision AQ LLC, which received funding from Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.
: This article is based on previously conducted studies and does not contain any new studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.