About the Authors
- Gavin J. Churchyard
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* E-mail: 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
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Elizabeth Adams
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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
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Barney S. Graham
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Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Zoe Moodie
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Doug Grove
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Glenda Gray
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Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Linda-Gail Bekker
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Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- M. Juliana McElrath
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Georgia D. Tomaras
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Paul Goepfert
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Affiliation University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Spyros Kalams
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Affiliation Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Lindsey R. Baden
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Affiliation Harvard-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Michelle Lally
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Affiliation Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Raphael Dolin
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Affiliation Harvard Medical School- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- William Blattner
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Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Artur Kalichman
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Affiliation Centro de Referencia e Treinamento em DST/AIDS, Coordenacao dos Institutos de Pesquisa, San Paulo, Brazil
- J. Peter Figueroa
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Affiliation Epidemiology Research and Training Unit (ERTU), Kingston, Jamaica
- Jean Pape
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Affiliation Cornell-GHESKIO, Institut National de Laboratoire et de Recherches, Port au Prince, Haiti
- Mauro Schechter
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Affiliation Projeto Praça Onze, Hospital Escola São Francisco de Assis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Olivier Defawe
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Stephen C. De Rosa
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- David C. Montefiori
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Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Gary J. Nabel
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Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lawrence Corey
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Michael C. Keefer
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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.