About the Authors

Yvonne J. Rosenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yjr@plantvax.com

Affiliation PlantVax Corporation, Rockville, Maryland United States of America

George K. Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Celia C. LaBranche

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark G. Lewis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bioqual Inc. Rockville, Maryland United States of America

Lori A. Urban

Roles Investigation

Affiliation PlantVax Corporation, Rockville, Maryland United States of America

Jonathan P. Lees

Roles Investigation

Affiliation PlantVax Corporation, Rockville, Maryland United States of America

Lingjun Mao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation PlantVax Corporation, Rockville, Maryland United States of America

Xiaoming Jiang

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation PlantVax Corporation, Rockville, Maryland United States of America

Competing Interests

YR, XJ and JL are affiliated with for-profit company PlantVax, and ML is associated with Bioqual, but there are no financial or non-financial, professional or personal competing interests involved with the publication of this manuscript in PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.