About the Authors
- Juliet Mpendo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Mpendo, Gaudensia Mutua, Julien Nyombayire
Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-IAVI, Entebbe, Uganda
- Gaudensia Mutua
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Mpendo, Gaudensia Mutua, Julien Nyombayire
Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Julien Nyombayire
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Mpendo, Gaudensia Mutua, Julien Nyombayire
Affiliation Projet San Francisco (PSF), Kigali, Rwanda
- Rosine Ingabire
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Affiliation Projet San Francisco (PSF), Kigali, Rwanda
- Annet Nanvubya
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Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-IAVI, Entebbe, Uganda
- Omu Anzala
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Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Etienne Karita
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Affiliation Projet San Francisco (PSF), Kigali, Rwanda
- Peter Hayes
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Affiliation IAVI, Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Jakub Kopycinski
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Affiliation IAVI, Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Len Dally
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Affiliation EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Drew Hannaman
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Affiliation ICHOR Medical Systems, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Michael A. Egan
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Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America
- John H. Eldridge
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Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America
- Kristen Syvertsen
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
- Jennifer Lehrman
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
- Beth Rasmussen
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
- Jill Gilmour
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Affiliation IAVI, Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Josephine H. Cox
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* E-mail: jcox@iavi.org
Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
- Patricia E. Fast
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
- Claudia Schmidt
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
KS, JL, BR, JG, JHC, PF and CS are or were employees or consultants of IAVI at the time of the study. IAVI has development rights for the Ad35-GRIN/Env product. No other authors have competing interests. ME and JE are employees of Profectus Biosciences which owns the rights to the HIV MAG pDNA. They both own shares in Profectus Biosciences and are listed as inventors on patents owned by Profectus Biosciences. DH is an employee of Ichor Medical Sciences Inc which owns the rights to the TriGrid Delivery System. DH owns shares in Ichor Medical Sciences Inc and is listed as an inventor on patents owned by Ichor Medical Sciences Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PEF JHC JG MAE JHE DH CS. Performed the experiments: JM GM JN RI AN OA EK JK PH. Analyzed the data: CS LD JHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS JL. Wrote the paper: JHC PEF CS. Medical monitoring: CS. Data manager: LD. Project Managers: BR JL. Principal Investigators: EK JM OA.