About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bernard Pecoul

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland

Suman Rijal

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), Delhi, India

Catharina Boehme

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative new Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

Serap Aksoy

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

Mwelecele Malecela

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Roberto Tapia-Conyer

Affiliation Carlos Slim Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

John C. Reeder

Affiliation UNICEF/UNDP/ World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Peter J. Hotez is principal investigator and patent holder on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis, as well as principal investigator on several other vaccines in development against Neglected Tropical Diseases.