Wildi, Karin
Livingstone, Samantha
Ainola, Carmen
Colombo, Sebastiano Maria
Heinsar, Silver
Sato, Noriko
Sato, Kei
Bouquet, Mahé
Wilson, Emily
Abbate, Gabriella
Passmore, Margaret
Hyslop, Kieran
Liu, Keibun
Wang, Xiaomeng
Palmieri, Chiara
See Hoe, Louise E.
Jung, Jae-Seung
Ki, Katrina
Mueller, Christian
Laffey, John
Pelosi, Paolo
Li Bassi, Gianluigi
Suen, Jacky
Fraser, John
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Wesley Medical Research Foundation (2020CR25)
Prince Charles Hospital Foundation (INN2018-101)
Article History
Received: 20 July 2023
Accepted: 16 October 2023
First Online: 20 October 2023
Competing interests
: This study was funded by the Wesley Medical Research Foundation (2020CR25) and an innovation grant by the Prince Charles Hospital Foundation (INN2018-101) (all KW). The funders had no role in the design of the study, data collection, analysis and interpretation as well as in writing the manuscript.Dr. Karin Wildi has received research funding from the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation, the University of Basel, the Wesley Medical Research Foundation and the Prince Charles Hospital Foundation. In addition, she received a PhD scholarship from the University of Queensland (UQ). Samantha Livingstone received a PhD scholarship from the Prince Charles Hospital Foundation. Keibun Liu received a research grant from Senko Medical Instrument Mfg. Co., Ltd and the Prince Charles Hospital Foundation. Silver Heinsar and Kei Sato received a PhD scholarship from the University of Queensland. Christian Mueller received research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Heart Foundation, the KTI, the University Hospital Basel, the University of Basel, Abbott, Beckman Coulter, Idorsia, Novartis, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Quidel, Roche, Siemens, as well as speaker honoraria/consulting honoraria from Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS, Daiichi Sankyo, Idorsia, Novartis, Osler, Roche, and Sanofi, outside the submitted work. Jacky Suen received an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship. Gianluigi Li Bassi acknowledges receipt of a “BITRECS” fellowship; the “BITRECS” project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 754550 and from the “La Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434), under the agreement LCF/PR/GN18/50310006. Gianluigi Li Bassi also received research grants from Fisher& Paykel through his affiliated research institution. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.