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The German and the French PTLD Study Groups were supported by Roche, AMGEN and Chugai to conduct the PTLD-1 trial with an unrestricted grant. SC received payment for lectures, research grants and consultancy fees from Roche. GS received payment for consultancy, honoraria and/or advisory board membership from Roche and/or Genentech and is an advisory board member for Celgene, Janssen-Cilag, Genzyme, Calistoga/Gilead and Mundipharma. FM received payment for consultancy, honoraria and/or advisory board membership from Roche and/or Genentech and is an advisory board member for Celgene, Spectrum and Mundipharma. CT received honoraria from Roche. VL is on the advisory board for Janssen-Cilag and Pharmacyclics, and received travel support from Roche and Honoraria from Janssen-Cilag and Mundipharma. RUT received payment for lectures and consultancy from CSL Behring, Mundipharma and/or Roche, grant support from AMGEN, CSL Behring, Mundipharma and Roche, and travel support from AMGEN, CLS Behring and Roche. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Zimmermann, H., Choquet, S., Moore, J. et al. Baseline differential blood count and prognosis in CD20-positive post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in the prospective PTLD-1 trial. Leukemia 27, 2102–2105 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.110
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