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Disclosure of financial ties

Posted by plosmedicine on 30 Mar 2009 at 23:55 GMT

Author: Julio Licinio
Position: Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry
Institution: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
E-mail: licinio@miami.edu
Submitted Date: June 14, 2006
Published Date: June 14, 2006
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The work reported in this article was done in the absence of any conflict of interest or pharmaceutical industry support. After the paper was submitted for publication in PLoS Medicine, I accepted to consult with Eli Lilly the manufacturer of fluoxetine. This has been a minor, occasional role, with very limited compensation. Such a relationship did not exist or was planned when the work was done and the article was written and submitted and it is being disclosed here in the interests of transparency.
Sincerely,
Julio Licinio

No competing interests declared.