About the Authors

Susanne Wieschowski

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Ethics, History, and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

William Wei Lim Chin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Ethics, History, and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Carole Federico

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Studies of Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM), Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Sören Sievers

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Ethics, History, and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jonathan Kimmelman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Studies of Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM), Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Daniel Strech

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

strech.daniel@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute for Ethics, History, and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JK serves in a remunerative capacity on the data safety monitoring board of an early-phase trial being pursued by Dimension Therapeutics. JK is part of the Editorial Board of the Meta-Research section of PLOS Biology.