van der Heijde, Désirée
Durez, Patrick
Schett, Georg
Naredo, Esperanza
Østergaard, Mikkel
Meszaros, Gabriella
De Leonardis, Francesco
de la Torre, Inmaculada
López-Romero, Pedro
Schlichting, Douglas
Nantz, Eric
Fleischmann, Roy
Funding for this research was provided by:
Eli Lilly and Company (N/A)
Article History
Received: 1 May 2018
Revised: 10 July 2018
Accepted: 16 July 2018
First Online: 4 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: RA-BEGIN was conducted in accordance with ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice guidelines, and was approved by each centre’s institutional review board or ethics committee. All patients gave informed consent before participating in the study.
: Professor van der Heijde has received consulting fees from AbbVie, Amgen, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, Daiichi, Eli Lilly and Company, Galapagos, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and UCB and is a Director of Imaging Rheumatology BV. Professor Durez has received speaker fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, and Sanofi. Professor Schett has received speaker honoraria from AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen, and Novartis. Esperanza Naredo has received speaker/consultant fees from AbbVie, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, UCB, Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis, Janssen, and Celgene. Mikkel Østergaard has received research support and/or consultancy/speaker fees from AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Celgene, Eli Lilly and Company, Centocor, GlaxoSmithKline, Hospira, Janssen, Merck, Mundipharma, Novartis, Novo, Orion, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche, Takeda, UCB, and Wyeth. Gabriella Meszaros, Francesco De Leonardis, Inmaculada de la Torre, Pedro López-Romero, Douglas Schlichting, and Eric Nantz are employees and shareholders of Eli Lilly and Company. Professor Fleischmann has received consulting fees from AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis and research grants from AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Eli Lilly and Company, Merck, Pfizer, Regeneron, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and UCB.