Hecht, Markus
Meier, Friedegund
Zimmer, Lisa
Polat, Bülent
Loquai, Carmen
Weishaupt, Carsten
Forschner, Andrea
Gutzmer, Ralf
Utikal, Jochen S
Goldinger, Simone M
Geier, Michael
Hassel, Jessica C
Balermpas, Panagiotis
Kiecker, Felix
Rauschenberg, Ricarda
Dietrich, Ursula
Clemens, Patrick
Berking, Carola
Grabenbauer, Gerhard
Schadendorf, Dirk
Grabbe, Stephan
Schuler, Gerold
Fietkau, Rainer
Distel, Luitpold V
Heinzerling, Lucie
Article History
Received: 27 July 2017
Revised: 11 December 2017
Accepted: 15 December 2017
First Online: 13 February 2018
Change Date: 20 March 2018
Change Type: Update
Change Details: This paper was modified 12 months after initial publication to switch to Creative Commons licence terms, as noted at publication
Competing interests
: MH participated in advisory boards for Merck Serono and BMS; received research funding from Novartis and MSD; travel support from Merck Serono, MSD and Teva. FM received honoraria from Roche, BMS, GSK, Novartis, MSD; travel support from Roche Pharma and BMS; research funding from Wyeth/Pfizer, MerckSerono, Novartis. LZ has served as consultant or/and has received honoraria from Roche, BMS, MSD, GSK, Novartis, Merck, and travel support from MSD, BMS, Amgen and Novartis. CL participated in advisory board from Roche, MSD, BMS, Amgen, Pierre Fabre, Novartis, Leo; received speaker honoraria from Roche, MSD, Amgen, Novartis, BMS; travel support from Roche, BMS, Amgen, Novartis. CW is principal investigator in clinical studies by Amgen, BMS, Curevac, Delcath, Kyowa, Leo Pharma, Novartis and Roche and is consultant or has received speaker fees, travel support or research funding from Amgen, BMS, Novartis, MSD, Roche and Takeda. AF reports honoraria from BMS, MSD, Roche, Novartis. She is advisory board member of Roche, Novartis and received travel support from Roche, Novartis and BMS. RG received research funding from Roche Pharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Johnson&Johnson. Honoraria from Roche Pharma, BMS, GSK, Novartis, Merck Serono, MSD, Almirall-Hermal, Amgen, Galderma, Janssen, Boehringer Ingelheim. Honoraria for advisory boards from Roche Pharma, BMS, GSK, Novartis, MSD, Almirall-Hermal, LEO, Amgen, Pfizer, Pierre Fabre. Meeting/travel support Roche Pharma, BMS. JSU is on the advisory board or has received honoraria and travel support from Amgen, BMS, GSK, LeoPharma, MSD, Novartis, Roche. SMG: Intermittent advisory board relationship and travel grant support from MSD, BMS, Novartis and Roche. Research time support by the University Hospital Zurich and medAlumni! MG has received a speaker fee from Roche. JCH is principal investigator in clinical studies by BMS, MSD, Merck, Roche, Novartis/GSK, Amgen, BioNTech and ImmunoCore and is consultant or has received speaker fees, travel grants or research funding from BMS, MSD, Merck, Roche, Novartis, Amgen and Pfizer. FK participated in symposia, advisory boards and meetings and therefore received payments and travel grants from Amgen, BMS, Merck-Serono, MSD, Novartis, Pierre-Fabre, Regeneron and Roche. RR participated in advisory boards for Novartis, received fees for lectures from Novartis and Amgen and travel support from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Amgen. CB is principal investigator in clinical studies by Amgen, BMS, MSD, Novartis, Array Pharma / Pierre Fabre, Regeneron, and Roche, she has been consultant and/or has received speaker´s honoraria and/or travel support by Amgen, AstraZeneca, BMS, MSD, Novartis, Pierre Fabre, and Roche. DS report research funding from Novartis and GSK, honoraria from Amgen and Boehringer Ingelheim, Leo Pharma, Roche MSD and BMS SG is consultant or has received speaker fees, or travel grants from AbbVie, Amgen, BMS, Beiersdorf, MSD, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Pasteur-MSD, Takeda. RF received honoraria from Fresenius, Merck Serono, MSD, Roche; has consulting or advisory role for Fresenius, Merck Serono, MSD, Roche; Speakers' Bureau for Fresenius, Merck, MSD, Roche; received research funding from MSD and travel support from Fresenius, Merck, MSD, Roche. LH is principal investigator in clinical studies by BMS, MSD, Merck, Roche, Amgen, GSK, Curevac and Novartis and is consultant or has received speaker fees, travel grants or research funding from BMS, MSD, Merck, Roche, Amgen, Curevacc and Novartis. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.