About the Authors

Stephen J. Kent

Affiliation University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

David A. Cooper

Affiliation University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Mean Chhi Vun

Affiliation National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STIs (NCHADS), Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Yiming Shao

yshao08@gmail.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Linqi Zhang

Affiliation Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Nirmal Ganguly

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Budiman Bela

Affiliation University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Hiko Tamashiro

Affiliation Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Rossana Ditangco

Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuttithum

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nguyen Van Kinh

Affiliation National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (NIITD), Hanoi, Viet Nam

Alan Bernstein

Affiliation Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, New York, New York, United States of America

Saladin Osmanov

Affiliation World Health Organization/Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

for the AIDS Vaccine for Asia Network investigators and supporters

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SJK DAC MCV YS LZ NKG BB HT RD SRN PP NVK AB SO. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: SJK DAC MCV YS LZ NKG BB HT RD SRN PP NVK AB SO. Wrote the first draft of the paper: SJK LZ HT SRN SO. Contributed to the writing of the paper: DAC MCV YS LZ NKG BB HT RD SRN PP NVK AB SO. Participated in discussion through teleconference of the AVAN task force and provided information concerning the efforts in HIV vaccine research in Indonesia: BB.