About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, 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

Ashish Damania

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 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: PJH is principal investigator and patentholder on vaccines against neglected tropical diseases discussed in the article. Vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis are in clinical trials; others are in development.