About the Authors

Li Sheng-Fowler

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wei Tu

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Haiqing Fu

Current address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Haruhiko Murata

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lynda Lanning

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gideon Foseh

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Juliete Macauley

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Donald Blair

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen H. Hughes

Affiliation Frederick Cancer Research Facility, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

John M. Coffin

Affiliations Frederick Cancer Research Facility, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew M. Lewis Jr

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Keith Peden

keith.peden@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSF DB SHH JMC AML KP. Performed the experiments: LSF WT HF GF JM AML KP. Analyzed the data: LSF WT HF HM LL GF DB SHH JMC AML KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSF DB SHH KP. Wrote the paper: LSF WT HM LL DB SHH JMC AML KP.