About the Authors

Saikat Boliar

Contributed equally to this work with: Saikat Boliar, Supratik Das

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Supratik Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Saikat Boliar, Supratik Das

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Manish Bansal

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Brihaspati N. Shukla

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Shilpa Patil

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Tripti Shrivastava

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Sweety Samal

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Sandeep Goswami

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

C. Richter King

Affiliation IAVI Vaccine Design, New York, NY, United States of America

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Bimal K. Chakrabarti

bchakrabarti@iavi.org

Affiliation THSTI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Design Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, 496 Udyog Vihar, Phase-III, Gurgaon-122 016, Haryana, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB SD JB BKC. Performed the experiments: SB SD MB BNS SP TS SS SG. Analyzed the data: SB SD BKC. Wrote the paper: SB SD BKC. Provided input on the writing of the manuscript: CRK JB.