About the Authors

Panagiotis Vagenas

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Program, Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Meropi Aravantinou

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Program, Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Vennansha G. Williams

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Program, Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Edith Jasny

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Program, Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Piatak Jr.

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Lifson

Affiliation AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Andres M. Salazar

Affiliation Oncovir Inc., Washington, D. C., United States of America

James L. Blanchard

Affiliation Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Agegnehu Gettie

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Melissa Robbiani

mrobbiani@popcouncil.org

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Program, Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Andres M. Salazar is Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of Oncovir Inc., which provided PolyICLC (Hiltonol). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR. Performed the experiments: PV MA VGW EJ MPJ JB AG. Analyzed the data: PV MA VGW MPJ JL AMS JB AG MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPJ JL AMS JB AG MR. Wrote the paper: PV JL MR.