Early CNS neurodegeneration in radiologically isolated syndrome
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- Received November 13, 2014
- Accepted in final form March 5, 2015
- First Published April 9, 2015.
Author Disclosures
- Christina J. Azevedo, MD, MPH,
- Eve Overton, BS,
- Sankalpa Khadka, BS,
- Jessica Buckley, BS,
- Shuang Liu, PhD,
- Mehul Sampat, PhD,
- Orhun Kantarci, MD,
- Christine Lebrun Frenay, MD,
- Aksel Siva, MD,
- Darin T. Okuda, MD and
- Daniel Pelletier, MD
- Christina J. Azevedo, MD, MPH,
I served on a medical advisory board for Genzyme
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Race to Erase MS (Nancy Davis) Foundation Young Investigator Award
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- Eve Overton, BS,
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(1) Foundation of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers
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- Sankalpa Khadka, BS,
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- Jessica Buckley, BS,
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- Shuang Liu, PhD,
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- Mehul Sampat, PhD,
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Bioclinica/Synarc, Senior Software Engineer, 2.5 years
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- Orhun Kantarci, MD,
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Istanbul MS Days, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, speaker honoraria payment to Mayo Clinic
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Grant review for The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Already listed in the paper but reported again: Dr. Orhun Kantarci receives research support from the European Regional Development Fund (FNUSAICRC CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0123), the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and has given a scientific presentation at a meeting supported by Teva Pharmaceuticals but has received no personal fees or personal compensation for this activity (all compensation for consulting activities paid directly to Mayo Clinic) nor has spoken about the specific medications involving this company. Dr.Kejal Kantarci serves on the data safety monitoring board of Takeda Global Research and Development Center, Inc, and the data monitoring boards of Pfizer Inc and Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy and is funded by the NIH (R01 AG040042 [PI], R21 NS066147 [PI], P50 AG44170/Project 2 [PI], P50 AG16574/Project 1 [PI], R01 AG11378[Co-I], U19 AG10483[Co-I] U01 AG042791[Co-I]) and Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (PO03590201[PI])
Dr.Kejal Kantarci serves on the data safety monitoring board of Takeda Global Research and Development Center, Inc, and the data monitoring boards of Pfizer Inc and Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy and is funded by the NIH (R01 AG040042 [PI], R21 NS066147 [PI], P50 AG44170/Project 2 [PI], P50 AG16574/Project 1 [PI], R01 AG11378[Co-I], U19 AG10483[Co-I] U01 AG042791[Co-I]) and Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (PO03590201[PI])
Dr.Kejal Kantarci serves on the data safety monitoring board of Takeda Global Research and Development Center, Inc, and the data monitoring boards of Pfizer Inc and Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy and is funded by the NIH (R01 AG040042 [PI], R21 NS066147 [PI], P50 AG44170/Project 2 [PI], P50 AG16574/Project 1 [PI], R01 AG11378[Co-I], U19 AG10483[Co-I] U01 AG042791[Co-I]) and Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (PO03590201[PI])
2006-2009 Multiple Sclerosis Society for support in multiple sclerosis research unrelated to this publication; 2008-2009 Mayo Foundation CR20 award for support in multiple sclerosis research unrelated to this publication; 2009-2011 Hilton Foundation support in multiple sclerosis research unrelated to this publication
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- Christine Lebrun Frenay, MD,
serving on a scientific advisory board from Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Genzyme, Almirall, Allergan, Teva, Sanofi, Bayer Schering
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Funding for travel or speaker honoraria from Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Genzyme, Almirall, Allergan, Teva, Sanofi, Bayer Schering
Serving as editorial advisory board member for Revue Neurologique (Paris) Elsevier
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- Aksel Siva, MD,
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Dr. Siva received travel and registration coverage for attending several national or international congresses or symposia, from Merck Serono, Biogen Idec/Gen Pharma of Turkey, Novartis and Teva.
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Dr Siva reports receiving honoraria or consultation fees from the commercial entities of Biogen Idec, Novartis and Teva within the last two years.
Giving educational presentations at programmes & symposia prepared by Excemed internationally - nonprofit entity
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Dr. Siva reports receiving research grants to his department from The Scientific and Technological Research Council Of Turkey - Health Sciences Research Grants numbers : 109S070 and 112S052 - noncommercial entity. / unrelated to the study submitted
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- Darin T. Okuda, MD and
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1. Acorda Therapeutics, travel and speaker fees 2. Genzyme, travel and speaker fees 3. Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, speaker fees 4. MS Cure Fund, speaker fees 3. TEVA Neuroscience, travel and speaker fees
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1. Genzyme 2. TEVA Neuroscience
1. Acorda Therapeutics 2. Genzyme 3. TEVA Neuroscience
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Dr. Okuda received research support from Biogen IDEC.
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- Daniel Pelletier, MD
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CNS Imaging Consultant, LLC
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I have received research grant support from Biogen-Idec adn Hoffmann-LaRoche over the past two years.
I receive research grant support from NIH/NINDS R01-NS062885 (PI).
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- From the Department of Neurology (C.J.A., E.O., S.K., J.B., S.L., M.S., D.P.) and Department of Diagnostic Radiology (D.P.), Yale University, New Haven, CT; Department of Neurology (O.K.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN; Service de Neurologie (C.L.F.), Hospital Pasteur, Nice, France; Department of Neurology (A.S.), Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, University of Istanbul, Turkey; and Department of Neurology (D.T.O.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
- Correspondence to Dr. Azevedo: christina.azevedo{at}yale.edu
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