About the Authors

Dominick J. Laddy

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jian Yan

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michele Kutzler

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Darwyn Kobasa

Affiliation Respiratory Viruses, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gary P. Kobinger

Affiliations Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Amir S. Khan

Affiliation VGX Pharmaceuticals, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jack Greenhouse

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

Niranjan Y. Sardesai

Affiliation VGX Pharmaceuticals, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli

Affiliation VGX Pharmaceuticals, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David B. Weiner

dbweiner@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

DBW serves as a consultant to VGX.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW JY DL. Performed the experiments: DW GK MK JY DK JG. Analyzed the data: DW JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW AK NS RD. Wrote the paper: DW RD.