Moffatt, Kurtis
Quinn, Caoimhe
McCague, Paul J.
Donnelly, Ryan F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0766-4147
Funding for this research was provided by:
Queen's University of Belfast
Article History
Accepted: 28 August 2020
First Online: 18 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: Ethical approval for the study was granted from the School of Pharmacy Ethics Committee at Queen’s University prior to commencement (016PMY2018).
: Ryan Donnelly is an inventor of patents that have been licensed to companies developing microneedle-based products and is a paid advisor to a number companies working towards commercialisation of this technology. The resulting potential conflict of interest has been disclosed and is managed by Queen’s University Belfast. The companies had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to publish the results. No other authors have any competing interests.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients and participants for being included in the study.