About the Authors

Bryan Grabias

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nitin Verma

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Hong Zheng

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Abhai K. Tripathi

Affiliations The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Godfree Mlambo

Affiliations The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Merribeth J. Morin

Affiliation PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Washington DC, United States of America

Emily Locke

Affiliation PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Washington DC, United States of America

Sanjai Kumar

Sanjai.Kumar@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SK EL MM. Data curation: SK BG NV. Formal analysis: BG NV HZ SK. Funding acquisition: SK. Investigation: BG HZ NV GM AT. Methodology: HZ BG NV GM AT. Project administration: SK. Resources: SK AT GM. Supervision: SK. Validation: SK HZ BG NV. Visualization: BG. Writing – original draft: BG SK EL MM. Writing – review & editing: BG SK EL MM.