About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

Photez@gwu.edu or peter.hotez@sabin.org

Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

PJH is a co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. He is an inventor on U.S. Patent 7,303,752 B2 (issued December 4, 2007) entitled "Hookworm vaccine".