About the Authors

Marnie L. Elizaga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

melizaga@gmail.com

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shuying S. Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nidhi K. Kochar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gregory J. Wilson

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mary A. Allen

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hong Van N. Tieu

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Ian Frank

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Kristen W. Cohen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brittany Sanchez

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Theresa E. Latham

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

David K. Clarke

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Michael A. Egan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

John H. Eldridge

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Drew Hannaman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ichor Medical Systems, Incorporated, San Diego, California, United States of America

Rong Xu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Ayuko Ota-Setlik

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Profectus BioSciences, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christine Mhorag Hay

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

on behalf of the NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) 087 Study Team

A complete listing of HVTN 087 Study Team authors is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MAA is employed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the study sponsor. MLE, SSL, NKK, GJW, HVNT, IF, MES, KWC, BSP, JHE, MJM and CMH are recipients of NIAID funding, and this publication is a result of activities funded by NIAID. MAA is not involved with the process of funding these awards, nor in their administration of scientific aspects and, in accordance with NIAID policies, is deferred from decisions regarding funding of coauthors for a requisite period. TEL, DKC, JHE, RX, and AOS are employees and stakeholders of Profectus BioSciences, Inc. DKC is the principal author/inventor on a patent for the rVSVN4CT1 vector. At the time the study was conducted, MAE was an employee and stakeholder of Profectus BioSciences, Inc. and is now an employee of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, which has no affiliation with the study. DH is an employee and stakeholder of Ichor Medical Systems, Inc. IF serves on advisory boards for Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare. HVNT has received research grant funding from Merck & Co. These affiliations do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.