Le Tourneau, Christophe
Hoimes, Christopher
Zarwan, Corrine
Wong, Deborah J.
Bauer, Sebastian
Claus, Rainer
Wermke, Martin
Hariharan, Subramanian
von Heydebreck, Anja
Kasturi, Vijay
Chand, Vikram
Gulley, James L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck KGaA
Pfizer
Article History
Received: 30 April 2018
Accepted: 7 October 2018
First Online: 22 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The trial was conducted in accordance with the ethics principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and the International Council for Harmonisation Guidelines on Good Clinical Practice. The protocol was approved by the institutional review board or independent ethics committee of each center. All patients provided written informed consent before enrollment.
: Not applicable.
: C. Le Tourneau has served in consulting or advisory roles for Merck & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, and AstraZeneca and has received honoraria from EMD Serono and AstraZeneca. C. Hoimes has served in consulting or advisory roles for Eisai and Seattle Genetics and has served on speakers bureaus for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche-Genentech. C. Zarwan has served in consulting or advisory roles for Perceptive Informatics and Revere Pharmaceutics. D.J. Wong has served in consulting or advisory roles for and has received honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb and has received research funding from Armo Biosciences, AstraZeneca/MedImmune, BioMed Valley Discoveries, Bristol-Myers Squibb, EMD Serono, KURA Oncology, Merck & Co., and Roche-Genentech. S. Bauer has served in consulting or advisory roles for Bayer, Blueprint Medicines, Deciphera, and Eli Lilly; has received honoraria from Bayer, Novartis, GSK, Pfizer, and PharmaMar; has received research funding from Blueprint Medicines, Incyte, and Novartis; and has received reimbursement for travel and accommodation expenses from PharmaMar. R. Claus has served in consulting or advisory roles for AbbVie, Gilead, Janssen Oncology, and Roche-Genentech and has received honoraria from Janssen Oncology and Roche. M. Wermke has served in consulting or advisory roles for AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, and Roche-Genentech and has received research funding from Boehringer, Celgene, Novartis, and Pfizer. S. Hariharan reports employment with and stock ownership in Pfizer. A. von Heydebreck reports employment with and stock ownership in Merck KGaA. V. Kasturi reports employment with EMD Serono. V. Chand reports employment with EMD Serono and stock ownership in Bristol-Myers Squibb. J.L. Gulley has received research funding from Astellas Medivation, Bavarian Nordic, Celgene, EMD Serono, and Pfizer.
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