Rahman, Proton
Starr, Michael
Haaland, Derek
Bessette, Louis
Teo, Michelle
Rampakakis, Emmanouil
Lehman, Allen J.
Nantel, Francois http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-3328
Article History
Received: 1 June 2020
Accepted: 12 August 2020
First Online: 15 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Prior to enrollment, patients were required to provide written informed consent to participate. Ethics approval was obtained from a central Research Ethics Board (IRB Service, Ontario, Canada now under the name of Advarra) for private practices (registered with OHRP and FDA as follows: ON IRB registration #IRB00000776, QC IRB registration #IRB00005290, and from respective Research Ethics Boards for institutional sites (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre REB, Winnipeg Clinical Ethics Committee, Mount Sinai Hospital REB, University of BC BCCA REB, CHUS Centre de Recherche, HREA, HREBA (Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta), Horizon Health Network REB, Hopital Maisonneuve Rosemont. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: Proton Rahman has received consulting fees for Abbott, AbbVie, Amgen, BMS, Celgene, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer and Roche; and received research grant from Janssen. Michael Starr received consultant fees from Janssen, AbbVie, Novartis, Sanofi, Pfizer, BMS and Lilly. Derek Haaland received grant/research support, sponsored study funding and speaker fees from Janssen. Louis Bessette received speaker fees from Amgen, BMS, Janssen, Roche, UCB, AbbVie, Pfizer, Merck, Celgene, Lilly and Novartis; consultant fees from Amgen, BMS, Janssen, Roche, UCB, AbbVie, Pfizer, Celgene, Lilly and Novartis and research grants from Amgen, BMS, Janssen, Roche, UCB, AbbVie, Pfizer, Merck, Celgene, Sanofi, Lilly and Novartis. Michelle Teo received research support and consulting fees from Janssen. Allen Lehman and Francois Nantel are employees of Janssen Inc. and are JNJ stockholders.