Xue, Weiguang
Valderrama, Adriana
Ramakrishnan, Karthik
Zhou, Jenny
Meng, Yan
Bordia, Sonal
Shah, Manish A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA
Article History
Received: 25 July 2025
Accepted: 23 March 2026
First Online: 10 April 2026
Declarations
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: A.V. is an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, and a stockholder of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA .S.B. is an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, and a stockholder of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. At the time of this study, K.R. was an employee of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, and a stockholder of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.J.Z. is an employee of Analysis Group, a consulting company that has provided paid consulting services to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.W.X. is an employee of Analysis Group, a consulting company that has provided paid consulting services to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. Y.M. is an employee of Analysis Group, a consulting company that has provided paid consulting services to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.M.A.S. is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and has received research funding from Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Oncolys BioPharma.