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Article History

Received: 24 October 2019

Accepted: 16 January 2020

First Online: 30 January 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The INPULSIS® trials were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the Harmonized Tripartite Guideline for Good Clinical Practice from the International Conference on Harmonization and were approved by local authorities. The clinical protocols were approved by an independent ethics committee or institutional review board at each participating center. All patients provided written informed consent before study entry.

: Not applicable.

: MK has received grants, compensation for speaker bureaus, and consulting fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche, and advisory board fees from Galapagos. SB has received grants and compensation for speaker bureaus, and consulting fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche. MW has received grants, and speaker and advisory board fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and Hoffmann-La Roche, and advisory board fees from Galapagos (all fees and grants were paid to her institution). WW has received grants, paid to his institution, from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche. TMM has received research funding and/or consulting fees or other remuneration from GSK, UCB, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, Roche, Bayer, Biogen Idec, Cipla, Prometic, and Sanumed and has stock options or bond holdings in the for-profit corporation Apellis. JS has received grant funding, consulting fees and honoraria for giving non-branded talks for Boehringer Ingelheim and Genentech. SS, NM, WS, LO, and NS are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim.