Fan, Hongwei
Guo, Fuping
Hsieh, Evelyn
Chen, Wei-Ti
Lv, Wei
Han, Yang
Xie, Jing
Li, Yanling
Song, Xiaojing
Li, Taisheng
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science and Technology Program during the Twelfth Five-year Plan Period (2012ZX10001003-001)
National Key Technologies Research & Development Program for the 11th Five-year Plan (2008ZX1001-006)
National Key Technologies Research & Development Program for the 13th Five-year Plan (2017ZX10202101)
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2017-12M-1-014)
Article History
Received: 20 December 2019
Accepted: 25 March 2020
First Online: 1 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) in Beijing, China served as the primary study center for both studies, and training and monitoring of study sites was overseen by the same contract research organization. Both protocols were approved by the PUMCH institutional review board prior to initiation of study activities. All study participants provided written informed consent at the time of enrollment, and all procedures were performed in compliance with the ethical standards of <i>The Declaration of Helsinki</i>.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Hsieh has received honoraria from Gilead. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.