About the Authors

Francesca Avogadri

Affiliation Swim Across America Laboratory, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Taha Merghoub

Affiliation Swim Across America Laboratory, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Maureen F. Maughan

Affiliation AlphaVax, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel Hirschhorn-Cymerman

Affiliation Swim Across America Laboratory, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

John Morris

Affiliation AlphaVax, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Erika Ritter

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York Branch, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Olmsted

Affiliation AlphaVax, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Alan N. Houghton

Affiliation Swim Across America Laboratory, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Jedd D. Wolchok

wolchokj@mskcc.org

Affiliations Swim Across America Laboratory, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York Branch, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Maureen F. Maughan, John Morris and Robert Olmsted are employees of AlphaVax, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA ANH JDW. Performed the experiments: FA. Analyzed the data: FA TM JDW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM MFM DHC JM ER RO. Wrote the paper: FA.