Polman, Nicole J
Veldhuijzen, Nienke J
Heideman, Daniƫlle A M
Snijders, Peter J F
Meijer, Chris J L M
Berkhof, Johannes
Article History
Received: 18 April 2017
Revised: 8 August 2017
Accepted: 9 August 2017
First Online: 7 September 2017
Competing interests
: NJV has received travel support from DDL Diagnostic Laboratory. DAMH serves occasionally on the scientific advisory boards of AMGEN and Pfizer. PJFS has been on the speakers bureau of Roche diagnostics, Gen-Probe, Abbott, Qiagen and Seegene and has been a consultant for Crucell B.V. CJLMM has received speakers fee from GSK, Qiagen, SPMSD/Merck, Roche diagnostics, Menarini and Seegene, served occasionally on the scientific advisory board (expert meeting) of GSK, Qiagen, SPMSD/Merck, Roche and Genticel and has been by occasion consultant for Qiagen and Genticel. CJLMM was minority shareholder of Diassay B.V. until April 2016, until 2014 he held a small number of certificates of shares in Delphi Biosciences, which went into receivership in 2014. DAMH, PJFS and CJLMM are minority shareholders of Self-screen B.V., a spin-off company of VUmc. Self-screen B.V. holds patents related to the work. JB has received consultancy fees from Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck/SPMSD and received travel support from DDL. All fees were collected by his employer. The remaining author declare no conflict of interest.