Lulé, Dorothée
Müller, Sabine
Fladung, Anne-Katharina
Uttner, Ingo
Schulze, Ulrike M. E .
Article History
Received: 1 December 2019
Accepted: 7 April 2020
First Online: 1 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: UME Schulze received funding by the EU FP7 programme and actually serves an unpaid ethics advisor for two other EU-funded projects. She received speaker’s fee from Shire. All other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
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