Clinical testing for neutralizing antibodies to interferon-β in multiple sclerosis.

"Conflict of interest statement: RAF has received lecture fees from Teva-Aventis. RAF has not gained any remuneration from the use of the IFNβ NAb assay. PIC has received grant support from Merz Pharmaceuticals. PIC has not gained any remuneration from the use of the IFNβ NAb assay. However, Queen Mary University of London is looking to use this technology."

"Funding: This work was supported by the EU Framework 6 program ‘NABINMS’ (grant number LSHB-CT-2005-018926); the Barts and The London Charity (grant number 699/984) and by the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (grant number 115303), resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and EFPIA companies in kind contribution."