Ehlken, Christoph http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7388-7173
Ziemssen, Focke http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3873-0581
Eter, Nicole http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5617-346X
Lanzl, Ines
Kaymak, Hakan
Lommatzsch, Albrecht
Schuster, Alexander K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6304-3599
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayer Vital GmbH
Article History
Received: 1 April 2020
Revised: 3 June 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Christoph Ehlken received fees for advisory boards from Bayer Vital GmbH and payments to his institution (no personal transfers) for clinical studies from Novartis, Bayer, and LumiThera. Focke Ziemssen received grants and personal fees from Allergan, Alimera, Bayer Healthcare, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Clearside, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, MSD Sharp & Dohme, Roche, and Optos. Nicole Eter is a consultant for Novartis, Bayer. She received speaker fees and honoraria from Novartis, Bayer, and Allergan. She received research funding from Novartis, Bayer. She received study grants to her department from Novartis, Bayer. She served on advisory board for Novartis, Bayer, Allergan, Alimera Sciences, and Roche. Ines Lanzl received fees for holding presentations from Bayer and Novartis. Hakan Kaymak has no potential conflict of interest. Albrecht Lommatzsch received lecture fees and traveling expenses from Novartis, Bayer Vital, Allergan, and Zeiss. Alexander Schuster holds the professorship for ophthalmic healthcare research endowed by “Stiftung Auge” and financed by “Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft” and “Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands e.V.” He received research funding from Allergan, Bayer Vital, Novartis, PlusOptix, and Heidelberg Engineering.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consent: not applicable.