Richeldi, Luca http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8594-1448
Kolb, Martin
Jouneau, Stéphane
Wuyts, Wim A.
Schinzel, Birgit
Stowasser, Susanne
Quaresma, Manuel
Raghu, Ganesh
Article History
Received: 24 July 2019
Accepted: 12 December 2019
First Online: 8 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The INPULSIS and INSTAGE trials were carried out in compliance 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. All patients provided written informed consent before study entry.
: Not applicable.
: LR reports grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche; and personal fees from Asahi Kasei, Biogen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, CSL Behring, FibroGen, ImmuneWorks, Nitto, Pliant Therapeutics, Promedior, Respivant, and Toray. MK reports grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Prometic, and Roche; grants from Actelion, Alkermes, Pharmaxis, and RespiVert; and personal fees from Genoa, Indalo, and Third Pole. SJ has received fees, funding, or reimbursement for participation at meetings from Actelion, AIRB, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chiesi, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, LVL, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, and Savara-Serendex. WAW reports grants to his institution from Boehringer Ingelheim and Roche and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim. BS, SS and MQ are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim, which funded the INPULSIS and INSTAGE trials; BS, SS and MQ were involved in the design of these trials, in the interpretation of the data and in writing the manuscript. BS was involved in analysing the data. GR has acted as a consultant for Bellerophon, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, FibroGen, Gilead, Nitto, Patara, Promedior, Sanofi, and Veracyte; has received a grant from the US National Institute of Health; and is a principal investigator and steering committee member for IPFnet studies.