About the Authors

Laurence Peiperl

Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cecilia Morgan

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zoe Moodie

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hongli Li

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nina Russell

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Barney S. Graham

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen C. De Rosa

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

jmcelrat@fhcrc.org

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

the NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP CM ZM NDR BSG GDT MJM. Performed the experiments: LP GDT SCdR MJM. Analyzed the data: LP ZM HL BSG GDT SCdR MJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZM HL BSG GDT MJM. Wrote the paper: LP CM ZM BSG GDT SCdR MJM.