About the Authors

Rick A. Bright

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rbright@novavax.com (RB); tmr15@pitt.edu (TR)

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Donald M. Carter

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Corey J. Crevar

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Franklin R. Toapanta

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jonathan D. Steckbeck

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kelly S. Cole

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Niranjan M. Kumar

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Pushko

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gale Smith

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Terrence M. Tumpey

Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ted M. Ross

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rbright@novavax.com (RB); tmr15@pitt.edu (TR)

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR RB KC CC. Performed the experiments: TT PP DC FT JS CC. Analyzed the data: TT TR RB GS DC FT JS KC CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT RB GS PP NK. Wrote the paper: TR.