Backman, Helena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0553-8067
Vanfleteren, Lowie
Lindberg, Anne
Ekerljung, Linda
Stridsman, Caroline
Axelsson, Malin
Nilsson, Ulf
Nwaru, Bright I.
Sawalha, Sami
Eriksson, Berne
Hedman, Linnea
Rådinger, Madeleine
Jansson, Sven-Arne
Ullman, Anders
Kankaanranta, Hannu
Lötvall, Jan
Rönmark, Eva
Lundbäck, Bo
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Of Umea
Article History
Received: 10 July 2020
Accepted: 6 October 2020
First Online: 28 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval was received from the Regional Ethical Review Boards at the Universities of Umeå and Gothenburg, Sweden (Dnr 1991–236, 2005-157 M and 593–08). All participants signed informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Backman reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work. Dr. Vanfleteren reports grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Pulmonx, personal fees and non-financial support from Menarini, grants and personal fees from Astrazeneca, personal fees from Chiesi, GSK, Novartis and Boehringer, and grants and non-financial support from Fisher&Paykel, outside the submitted work. Dr Lindberg reports personal fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, Novartis, and Active Care, outside the submitted work. Dr. Lundbäck reports grants from AstraZeneca, and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Novartis, GSK and Sanofi, outside the submitted work. Dr. Stridsman reports personal fees from AstraZeneca and Novartis, outside the submitted work. Dr. Axelsson reports personal fees from MEDA AB, outside the submitted work. Dr. Nilsson reports reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim outside the submitted work. Dr. Rådinger reports grants from AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work. Professor Kankaanranta reports grants, personal fees and non-financial support from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Chiesi Pharma AB, personal fees and non-financial support from Boehringer-lngelheim, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Mundipharma, personal fees and non-financial support from Orion Pharma, personal fees from SanofiGenzyme, personal fees from GlaxoSmithKline, outside the submitted work. Professor Lötvall has multiple patents in the field of exosomes as diagnostics and therapeutics, and hold equity in Codiak BioSciences Inc and Exocure Biosciences Inc. Consultancies: Vesicle Biosciences, MDimune, CLARA biotech. Dr. Ekerljung, Dr. Nwaru, Dr. Sawalha, Dr. Eriksson, Dr. Hedman, Dr. Jansson, Professor Ullman, and Professor Rönmark has nothing to disclose.