Ziemssen, Tjalf http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-8202
Lang, Michael
Schmidt, Stephan
Albrecht, Holger
Klotz, Luisa
Haas, Judith
Lassek, Christoph
Lang, Stefan
Winkelmann, Veronika E.
Ettle, Benjamin
Schulze-Topphoff, Ulf
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharma
Technische Universität Dresden
Article History
Received: 16 August 2021
Revised: 2 December 2021
Accepted: 3 December 2021
First Online: 4 January 2022
Declarations
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: T.Z. has received personal compensation for participating on advisory boards, trial steering committees, and data and safety monitoring committees as well as for scientific talks and project support from Bayer HealthCare, Biogen, Celgene, Genzyme, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, and Teva. M. L. has received speaker’s honoraria, financial research support, travel grants and consultancy fees (visiting advisory boards) from Allergan, Alnylam, Bayer, Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme, Teva, Zambon. S.S. served on advisory boards and has received travel funding and speaker honoraria from Bayer Vital, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck, Novartis, Roche and Teva; S.S. has received research funding from Bayer Vital, and Merck. H.A. has received travel grants, speaker’s honoraria, and consultancy fees from Teva, Merck Serono, Genzyme, Sanofi, Novartis, Bayer, and Biogen. L. K. received compensation for serving on Scientific Advisory Boards for Genzyme, Janssen, Novartis, and Roche. She received speaker honoraria and travel support from Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, and TEVA. She receives research support from the German Ministry for Education and Research, the German Research Foundation, the IZKF Münster, IMF Münster, Biogen, Novartis, and Merck Serono. J.H. served on the scientific advisory boards of Biogen, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Merck, Hoffmann La Roche received travel funding and/or speaker honoraria from Sanofi—Aventis, Merck, Bayer received research support from Octapharma, Bayer. C. L. served on the scientific advisory boards of Biogen, Celgene, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme; received travel funding and/or speaker honoraria from Biogen, Celgene, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme, and Teva; received research support from Biogen, Celgene, Novartis, Roche, and Sanofi Genzyme. V.E.W., B.E. and U.S.-T. are employees of Novartis.
: An ethics committee approved the study before trial initiation and had jurisdiction over the medical director of the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.