Footnotes

• ↵* The conference was organised under the sole responsibility of the departments of the Universities of Erlangen, Leiden, and Vienna in collaboration with an advisory board consisting of the above mentioned colleagues from departments of rheumatology of several American and European Universities. The following companies provided unrestricted educational grants for the organisation of this conference: Amgen Europe, Centocor, Immunex, Knoll, Schering-Plough, Wyeth Ayerst. The pharmaceutical industry had no part in the decisions about the specific programme and, with the exception of few observers, participants were selected and solely invited by the organising committee. Several members of the advisory board and the members of the organising committee have obtained experience in the use of TNF blocking compounds in the course of their participation in clinical studies on these agents (for which the costs were defrayed by industry).