About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: the author is a patent holder on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis which are currently in clinical trials.