About the Authors

Borislav Savkovic

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

James Nichols

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Donald Birkett

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Tanya Applegate

Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Scott Ledger

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Geoff Symonds

Affiliations St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Calimmune Pty Ltd, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

John M. Murray

J.Murray@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: GS is an employee of Calimmune Pty Ltd, which is developing an anti-HIV entry/fusion inhibitor gene therapeutic. JM, BS, and SL have received funding through an ARC Linkage Grant to which Calimmune contributes. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS DB TA SL GS JMM. Performed the experiments: BS JN JMM. Analyzed the data: BS JN DB TA SL GS JMM. Wrote the paper: BS JN GS JMM.