About the Authors

Michael C. Keefer

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Keefer, Jill Gilmour

Michael_Keefer@URMC.Rochester.edu

Affiliation University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jill Gilmour

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Keefer, Jill Gilmour

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Peter Hayes

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Dilbinder Gill

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Jakub Kopycinski

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Hannah Cheeseman

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Michelle Cashin-Cox

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Marloes Naarding

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Lorna Clark

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Natalia Fernandez

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Catherine A. Bunce

Affiliation University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Christine M. Hay

Affiliation University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sabrina Welsh

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Wendy Komaroff

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Lottie Hachaambwa

Affiliation University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Tony Tarragona-Fiol

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Eddy Sayeed

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Devika Zachariah

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

James Ackland

Affiliation Global BioSolutions, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kelley Loughran

Affiliation The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Burc Barin

Affiliation The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Emmanuel Cormier

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Josephine H. Cox

Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Patricia Fast

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Jean-Louis Excler

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

IAVI is a non-profit organization, neither IAVI nor IAVI-affiliated co-authors report any competing interests that may interfere with the objective assessment of this manuscript or with the ability to adhere to all PloS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The affiliations of Burc Barin, Kelley Loughran, and James Ackland do not alter the authors’ ability to adhere to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLE PF JA JC JG. Performed the experiments: MK LH CB MH DG PH EC TTF JK HC MCC JG JC. Analyzed the data: BB MH EC JC JG JLE PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES JA KL DZ TTF LC NF. Wrote the paper: MK JG BB EC JC PF JLE. Clinical monitoring and program management: SW WK. Medical monitoring: SW WK. Data manager: KL. Principal Investigator at the University of Rochester Medical Center: MK. LB