About the Authors

Neil Formica

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nformica@novavax.com

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Raburn Mallory

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Gary Albert

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Robinson

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Joyce S. Plested

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Iksung Cho

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Andreana Robertson

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Filip Dubovsky

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory M. Glenn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

for the 2019nCoV-101 Study Group

Membership of the 2019nCoV-101 Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation Novavax, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors RM, GA, JSP, IC, AR, FD, MR and GG all state to be employees and/or stock owners at Novavax. Dr. NF reports through my personal consulting company vehicle I consult for a variety of pre and post-licensure clinical development and medical affairs activities for other vaccine pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In the area of coronavirus vaccines I have a current consulting contract for post-licensure COVID vaccine support for approval and implementation of rollout of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID vaccine in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. GG reports grants from CEPI during the conduct of the study; personal fees and other from Novavax, grants from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, grants from Department of Defense, grants from Operation Warp Speed, other from RA Capital outside the submitted work.