Olesen, M. N.
Soelberg, K.
Debrabant, B.
Nilsson, A. C.
Lillevang, S. T.
Grauslund, J.
Brandslund, I.
Madsen, J. S.
Paul, F.
Smith, T. J.
Jarius, S.
Asgari, N. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-0947
Article History
Received: 13 September 2018
Accepted: 22 February 2019
First Online: 11 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Research Ethical Committees in the Region of Southern Denmark approved the study protocol (ref. no. S-20130137) as did the Danish Data Protection Agency (ref. no. 14/26345). All patients gave written consent to participate after being presented verbal and written descriptions of the study. Data were processed in accordance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulations.
: Not applicable.
: F. Paul serves on the scientific advisory board for Novartis; received speaker honoraria and travel funding from Bayer, Novartis, Biogen Idec, Teva, Sanofi-Aventis/Genzyme, Merck, Serono, Alexion, Chugai, MedImmune, and Shire; he is an academic editor for PLoS ONE; is an associate editor for Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation; was consulted for SanofiGenzyme, Biogen Idec, MedImmune, Shire, and Alexion, and received research support from Bayer, Novartis, Biogen Idec, Teva, Sanofi-Aventis/Genzyme, Alexion, Merck Serono, German Research Council, Werth Stiftung of the City of Cologne, German Ministry of Education and Research, Arthur Arnstein Stiftung Berlin, EU FP7 Framework Program, Arthur Arnstein Foundation Berlin, Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation, and National Multiple Sclerosis of the USA. T.J. Smith patents on the therapeutic targeting of the insulin-like growth factor I receptor and the clinical assay development of anti-IGF-IR antibodies in autoimmune diseases. I am funded by National Institutes of Health grants EY008976 and 5UM1AI110557, Center for Vision core grant EY007003 from the National Eye Institute, unrestricted grants from Research to Prevent Blindness and the Bell Charitable Foundation. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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