Niebel, Dennis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2069-0486
de Vos, Luka
Fetter, Tanja
Brägelmann, Christine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-9041
Wenzel, Jörg http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4744-5993
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medizinische Fakultät, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (grant 2022-1A-08)
Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Article History
Accepted: 21 March 2023
First Online: 4 May 2023
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Funding was provided by GlaxoSmithKline for the characterization of autoreactive skin-associated B cells in patients’ skin samples of lupus erythematosus and other inflammatory skin diseases (grant number: #213383 / N-005.0523). LdV is funded by the University Medical Centre Bonn (UKB) BONFOR program (Grant 2022-1A-08).
: Dennis Niebel has received speakers’ honoraria or travel expense reimbursements from Abbvie, Almirall, BMS, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen-Cilag, Kyowa Kirin, LEO Pharma, L’Oreal, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and UCB. Luke de Vos has received financial support (travel expenses) from Pierre Fabre. Christine Brägelmann has received financial support (travel grants) from L’Oréal, Novartis, ADF and EADV. Joerg Wenzel has received financial support (clinical studies, travel grants, speaker’s fees) from GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Medac, Merck/Serono, Roche, Actelion, Pfizer, Spirig, ArrayBio, Biogen, and Incyte. Tanja Fetter declares no competing interests.
: Ethics approval and patient consent to participate were not applicable for this study. Patient’s images displayed in this paper were obtained from patients treated at the University Hospital of Bonn and written informed consent was obtained from all patients to publish the images used.
: JW conceived the idea for the article, and all authors performed the literature search and discussed the outline of the article. DN and LdV performed the data analysis, and TF drafted the graphic illustration. The first draft of the manuscript was written by DN and LdV. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript.
: Non-applicable.