Lacroix, A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4137-3025
Bronstein, M. D.
Schopohl, J.
Delibasi, T.
Salvatori, R.
Li, Y.
Barkan, A.
Suzaki, N.
Tauchmanova, L.
Ortmann, C.-E.
Ravichandran, S.
Petersenn, S.
Pivonello, R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharma AG (-)
Article History
Received: 23 September 2019
Accepted: 31 March 2020
First Online: 8 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: André Lacroix has received funding as an investigator or consultant from Novartis, Cortendo, Strongbridge Biopharma, and GLWL Research, Inc. Marcello D Bronstein has received consulting fees from Chiasma, Ipsen, Novartis, and Pfizer, speaker fees from Novartis and Ipsen, and research grants from Novartis and Ipsen, and is a principal investigator of clinical trials supported by Novartis and Ipsen. Jochen Schopohl has received lecture fees from Novartis, Ipsen, and Pfizer, and has served on advisory boards for Novartis and Ipsen. Tuncay Delibasi has no conflicts of interest to disclose. Roberto Salvatori has received grants as a clinical investigator from Novartis and Strongbridge Biopharma, consulting fees from Novo Nordisk and Novartis, and personal fees as an advisory board member from SteroTherapeutics. Yiming Li has received lecture fees from Novartis and Ipsen. Ariel Barkan has received an investigator-initiated grant from Novartis (paid to the University of Michigan). Noriyuki Suzaki has received speaker fees from Novartis and a research grant from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. Libuse Tauchmanova, Christine-Elke Ortmann, and Shoba Ravichandran are employees of Novartis. Stephan Petersenn has served as a lecturer for Ipsen, Novartis, and Pfizer, and as an advisory board member for Ipsen and Novartis. Rosario Pivonello has received grants and personal fees from Novartis, Pfizer, HRA Pharma, Viropharma, Shire, and Ipsen, personal fees from Ferring and Italfarmaco, and grants from Corcept Therapeutics, Cortendo AB, and IBSA.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.