About the Authors

Danielle Thompson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Ben Guenther

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Darly Manayani

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

Current address: Novartis Gene Therapies, San Diego California, United States of America

Affiliation PaxVax Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Jason Mendy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Smith

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

Current address: VLP Therapeutics, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation PaxVax Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Diego A. Espinosa

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

Current address: Metagenomi, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Eva Harris

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jeff Alexander

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America, PaxVax Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Lo Vang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher S. Morello

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

MorelloC@ebsi.com

Affiliation Emergent BioSolutions 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: Danielle Thompson, Jonathan Smith, Darly Manayani, and Diego Espinosa have no competing interests. Jeff Alexander is a paid consultant of Emergent BioSolutions Inc. Eva Harris is a paid employee of University of California, Berkeley. Lo Vang, Christopher S. Morello, Jason Mendy, Ben Guenther, are paid employees of Emergent BioSolutions Inc.