About the Authors

Gavin J. Churchyard

gchurchyard@auruminstitute.org

Affiliations Aurum Institute for Health Research, Klerksdorp, South Africa, Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

Cecilia Morgan

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Elizabeth Adams

Affiliation Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John Hural

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Barney S. Graham

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zoe Moodie

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Doug Grove

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Glenda Gray

Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Linda-Gail Bekker

Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

M. Juliana McElrath

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

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

Paul Goepfert

Affiliation University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Spyros Kalams

Affiliation Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lindsey R. Baden

Affiliation Harvard-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle Lally

Affiliation Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Raphael Dolin

Affiliation Harvard Medical School- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William Blattner

Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Artur Kalichman

Affiliation Centro de Referencia e Treinamento em DST/AIDS, Coordenacao dos Institutos de Pesquisa, San Paulo, Brazil

J. Peter Figueroa

Affiliation Epidemiology Research and Training Unit (ERTU), Kingston, Jamaica

Jean Pape

Affiliation Cornell-GHESKIO, Institut National de Laboratoire et de Recherches, Port au Prince, Haiti

Mauro Schechter

Affiliation Projeto Praça Onze, Hospital Escola São Francisco de Assis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Olivier Defawe

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen C. De Rosa

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gary J. Nabel

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence Corey

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael C. Keefer

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

and the NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network

Competing Interests

Dr. Nabel is named on patent applications for the DNA and adenovirus vector components of this vaccine concept (patents # E-173-2004/0-US-01, E-355-2003/0-US-01, and E-267-2004/0). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. None of the other authors have financial, personal, or professional interests that could be construed to have influenced the paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJC MCK CM EA JH BSG ZM DG OD SCD GDT DCM MJM GJN LC. Performed the experiments: GJC MCK GG L-GB PG SK LB ML RD WB AK JPF JP MS. Analyzed the data: GJC MCK ZM DG. Wrote the paper: GJC MCK CM EA JH BSG ZM DG OD SCD GDT DCM MJM GJN LC.