Boyle, Andrew James
Ferris, Peter
Bradbury, Ian
Conlon, John
Shankar-Hari, Manu
Rogers, Angela J.
O’Kane, Cecilia M.
McAuley, Daniel F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme (08/99/08 and 16/33/01, 08/99/08 and 16/33/01, 08/99/08 and 16/33/01)
NIHR Clinician Scientist Award (CS-2016-16-011)
Article History
Received: 3 February 2022
Accepted: 20 May 2022
First Online: 7 June 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was granted by Queen’s University Belfast School Research Ethics Committee (ref. 14/06). During the consent process for HARP-2, written informed consent was obtained for storage and future analysis of samples.
: Not applicable.
: Outside of the submitted work, and in the past 36 months, Prof O’Kane has received funding from Wellcome Trust, MRC, Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Research and Development Office, and Innovate UK, for ARDS research. Prof O’Kane has received fees for grant panel membership, including the review of ARDS-related projects, from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Outside of the submitted work, the spouse of CO’K has received consultancy/educational fees from Bayer, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, SOBI and Novartis, and fees for being a DMEC member for VIr Biotechnology and Faron. Prof O’Kane has received consultancy fees from Insmed for unrelated work. Prof McAuley has received funding to his institution for studies outside of this submitted work from the NIHR, Wellcome Trust, Innovate UK, Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Research and Development Office and Randox. Prof McAuley has a patent application issued to his institution. Outside of the submitted work Prof McAuley has received fees for consultancy from Bayer, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Novartis and SOBI and for being a member of the data monitoring and ethics committee for Vir Biotechnology and Faron studies and as an educational seminar speaker for GSK. The spouse of Prof McAuley has received consultancy fees from Insmed unrelated to this work, and fees for grant panel membership from CIRM. All other authors declare no competing interests.