Martin, Richard J
Price, David
Roche, Nicolas
Israel, Elliot
van Aalderen, Willem MC
Grigg, Jonathan
Postma, Dirkje S
Guilbert, Theresa W
Hillyer, Elizabeth V
Burden, Anne
von Ziegenweidt, Julie
Colice, Gene
Article History
Received: 28 May 2014
Revised: 13 August 2014
Accepted: 30 August 2014
First Online: 9 October 2014
Competing interests
: RJM has done consultancy work and received travel support for attendance at advisory boards for Teva, and has received research grants from MedImmune and the NHLBI and royalties from UpToDate.DP has Board Membership with Aerocrine, Almirall, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis and Teva; he is a consultant at Almirall, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis, Pfizer and Teva; he has received grants from or has grants pending with UK National Health Service, British Lung Foundation, Aerocrine, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Meda, Merck, Mundipharma, Novartis, Orion, Pfizer, Respiratory Effectiveness Group, Takeda, Teva and Zentiva; he has received payments for lectures or speaker fees from Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Cipla, GlaxoSmithKline, Kyorin, Meda, Merck, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, SkyePharma, Takeda and Teva; he has received payment for manuscript preparation from Mundipharma and Teva; he has patents (planned, pending or issued) from AKL Ltd.; he has received payment for the development of educational materials from GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis; he has stock or stock options in the form of shares in AKL Ltd, which produces phytopharmaceuticals; he owns 80% of Research in Real Life Ltd and its subsidiary social enterprise Optimum Patient Care; he has received payment for travel/accommodations/meeting expenses from Aerocrine, Boehringer Ingelheim, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis and Teva; he has received funding for patient enrolment or completion of research from Almirall, Chiesi, Teva and Zentiva; he is a peer reviewer for grant committees such as Medical Research Council (2014), Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme (2012) and HTA (2014); he has also received unrestricted funding for investigator-initiated studies from Aerocrine, AKL Ltd, Almirall, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis, Orion, Takeda, Teva and Zentiva.NR received fees for speaking, organising education and research or consulting from Aerocrine, Nycomed, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, MEDA, MSD, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer and Teva, and research funds from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Novartis, Nycomed.EI reports receiving consulting fees from Cowen & Co, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and TEVA Specialty Pharmaceutical; fees for Expert Testimony from Campbell, Campbell, Edwards & Conroy, Ficksman & Conley and Ryan Ryan Deluca LLP; lecturing fees from Merck; travel grant support from TEVA Specialty Pharmaceuticals; and grant support to his institution from Amgen, i3 Research (Biota).WMCvA is member of the Medical Advisory Boards of Mundipharma BV, Astra-Zeneca and Teva and received a travelling grant from Teva and a speaker’s fee from Forest.JG received honoraria from Novartis as a member of an advisory board for an asthma medication and received honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline for advice on an asthma medication study design.In the past 3 years, The University of Groningen has received money for DSP regarding an unrestricted educational grant for research from AstraZeneca, Chiesi; travel to ERS and/or ATS has been partially funded by AstraZeneca, Chiesi, GSK, Nycomed; fees for consultancies were given to the University of Groningen by AstraZeneca, Boeringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GSK, Nycomed and TEVA; travel and lectures in China were paid by Chiesi.TWG reports the following: board membership on the American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Pulmonary Subboard; being a consultant for Teva, MAP Pharmaceuticals, GSK and Merck; receiving grant funding through CDC, NIH and DHHS; being a subinvestigator for Altus Pharmaceuticals, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories, Array Biopharma, Teva, Mylan, Forest Research Institute, F. Hoffman-LaRoche, GSK, Medimmune, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Roxane Laboratories and CompleWare Corporation, CF Foundation Therapeutics and Roche/Genetech; receiving travel support to research meetings from Merck-Schering Plough; and royalities from UptoDate.EVH is a consultant for RiRL and has received payment for manuscript preparation from Merck and TevaFrance.AB and JvZ are employees of RiRL, which has conducted paid research in respiratory disease on behalf of the following organisations over the past 5 years: Aerocrine, AKL Ltd, Almirall, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Meda, Mundipharma, Napp, Novartis, Orion, Takeda, Teva and Zentiva.GC is speaker/advisor/consultant for Teva, MedImmune, Alitair, Dey, Mylan and Novartis.