About the Authors

Peter Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu (PH); serap.asksoy@yale.edu (SA)

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, Center for Health and Biosciences, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

hotez@bcm.edu (PH); serap.asksoy@yale.edu (SA)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PH is lead investigator on several vaccines against NTDs that are in development, as well as on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis that are in clinical trials.