Sandberg, David I. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0245-6461
Yu, Bangning
Patel, Rajan
Hagan, John
Miesner, Emilie
Sabin, Jennifer
Smith, Sarah
Fletcher, Stephen
Shah, Manish N.
Sirianni, Rachael W.
Taylor, Michael D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ian’s Friends Foundation
Article History
Received: 20 September 2018
Accepted: 15 November 2018
First Online: 20 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors (Bangning Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Rajan Patel, M.D., Emilie Miesner, PA-C, Jennifer Sabin, PA-C, Sarah Smith, PA-C, Stephen Fletcher, D.O., Manish N. Shah, M.D., and Michael D. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D.) declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Author David Sandberg, M.D. received grant support from Ian’s Friends Foundation to support this study as noted above. Dr. Sandberg also received a speaker honorarium from Aesculap in 2017 for a talk at the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery on a topic unrelated to this study. Author John Hagan, Ph.D., has received financial support from GlaxoSmithKline for research that is unrelated to this study. Author Rachael Sirianni, Ph.D., currently receives grant support from Ian’s Friends Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and she has received grant funding in the past from the Rick Oehme Foundation, the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, the ALS Association, the Barrow Neurological Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. Author Rachael Sirianni, Ph.D. owns stock in the company NP Therapeutics, Inc. and works as a consultant for the Ian’s Friends Foundation. None of these relationships for Dr. Sirianni have any connection to the current study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national search committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants in the study.