Competing interests
Michael Kreuter reports grants, consulting fees and fees for speaking from Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Roche; and holds leadership or fiduciary roles with Deutsche gesellschaft für Pneumologiex, the European Respiratory Society, and the German Respiratory Society. Elisabeth Bendstrup reports an unrestricted grant from BI; fees for speaking from BI, Chiesi, Roche; support for travel from BI and Roche; and has participated on Data Safety Monitoring Boards or Advisory Boards for AbbVie and BI. Stéphane Jouneau reports grants from AIRB, BI, LVL, Novartis, Roche; fees for speaking from AIRB, AstraZeneca, BI, Bristol Myers Squibb, Chiesi, Genzyme, GlaxoSmithKline, LVL, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi; support for travel from BI and Roche; and has participated on Data Safety Monitoring Boards or Advisory Boards for BI, Novartis, Roche. Toby M. Maher reports consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Blade Therapeutics, BI, Bristol Myers Squibb, Galapagos, Galecto, GlaxoSmithKline, IQVIA, Pliant, Respivant, Roche/Genentech, Theravance Biopharma, Veracyte; and fees for speaking from BI and Roche/Genentech. Yoshikazu Inoue reports grants from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare; fees for lectures from BI, Kyorin, Shionogi, Thermo Fisher; and has served as a consultant or steering committee member for BI, Roche, Savara, Taiho. Corinna Miede is an employee of mainanalytics GmbH, Sulzbach (Taunus), Germany, which was contracted by BI to assist with these analyses. Dirk Lievens is an employee of BI. Bruno Crestani reports grants from BI, Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche; consulting fees from Apellis; fees for speaking from AstraZeneca, BI, Bristol Myers Squibb, Chiesi, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi; and medical writing support from Translate Bio (Sanofi).