A novel patient-derived meningioma spheroid model as a tool to study and treat epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in meningiomas.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the South Central—Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee (29th October 2019; REC No: 19/SC/0267). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Consent for publicationFigure 1 was created using biorender.com We declare we have a license for publication. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study was kindly funded by Brain Tumour Research, a UK charity. Brain Tumour Research did not play a role in design of the study and/or collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."