About the Authors

Martin R. Gaudinski

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin R. Gaudinski, Emily E. Coates

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Emily E. Coates

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin R. Gaudinski, Emily E. Coates

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Katherine V. Houser

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Grace L. Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Galina Yamshchikov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jamie G. Saunders

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

LaSonji A. Holman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ingelise Gordon

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah Plummer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia S. Hendel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Conan-Cibotti

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Margarita Gomez Lorenzo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Clinical Research Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Sandra Sitar

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin Carlton

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carolyn Laurencot

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert T. Bailer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sandeep Narpala

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Adrian B. McDermott

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Aryan M. Namboodiri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Janardan P. Pandey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Richard M. Schwartz

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zonghui Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Branch, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard A. Koup

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Edmund Capparelli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Barney S. Graham

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Julie E. Ledgerwood

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Ledgerwood@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

the VRC 606 Study Team

Membership of the VRC 606 Study Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.