Ricklin, Daniel
Mastellos, Dimitrios C.
Reis, Edimara S.
Lambris, John D.
Article History
First Online: 4 December 2017
Competing interests
: J.D.L. is the founder of Amyndas Pharmaceuticals, which is developing complement inhibitors (including third-generation compstatin analogues such as AMY-101). J.D.L. and D.R. are inventors of patents or patent applications that describe the use of complement inhibitors for therapeutic purposes, some of which are developed by Amyndas Pharmaceuticals. J.D.L. is also the inventor of the compstatin technology licensed to Apellis Pharmaceuticals (4(1MeW)7W, also known as POT-4 and APL-1) and pegylated derivatives such as APL-2. D.R. has received speaker's honoraria from Alexion and Novartis. The other authors declare no competing interests.