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Matt Stevenson, Andrew Metry & Michael Messenger.

Matt Stevenson ^1,*, Andrew Metry ¹, Michael Messenger ^2,3

¹ School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
² Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
³ NIHR Leeds Medtech and In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative, Leeds, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: m.d.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: Matt Stevenson reports that he is part of a team that has received funding from Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) in the area of biomarkers following head trauma. Michael Messenger reports that he has been a paid expert advisor to Cepheid, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) on the development of their cancer test portfolio; he is a partner of Roche Diagnostics, with current collaborations in the field of early cancer detection and diagnosis; he is a partner of SomaLogic, Inc. (Boulder, CO, USA), with current collaborations in the field of personalised health management of pre-diabetes; that he has received in-kind co-funding from Abbott Laboratories (Chicago, IL, USA) on a kidney research project; that Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) holds the pathology contract for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust where he holds an honorary contract of employment; and that Avacta Life Sciences Limited (Wetherby, UK) is a spin-out company of the University of Leeds. All of these companies listed are working in the field of COVID-19 diagnostics. Furthermore, Michael Messenger is, or has been, a paid expert advisor to the European Union, including for COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics, a seconded scientific advisor to the UK Department of Health and Social Care to support the COVID-19 testing programme and a member of the UK Government Scientific Advisory Group for Testing.