About the Authors

Daniel K. Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel K. Jin, Daniel J. Nesbitt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Daniel J. Nesbitt

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel K. Jin, Daniel J. Nesbitt

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Jenny Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Haidee Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Julie Horowitz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regeneron Genetics Center, Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Marcus Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Regeneron Genetics Center, Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Rianna Vandergaast

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Imanis Life Sciences, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Timothy Carey

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Imanis Life Sciences, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Samantha Reiter

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Imanis Life Sciences, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Stephen J. Russell

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Vyriad, Inc., Rochester, MN, United States of America, Imanis Life Sciences, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Mayo Clinic Department of Molecular Medicine, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Christos Kyratsous

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Andrea Hooper

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Jennifer Hamilton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Manuel Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regeneron Genetics Center, Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Sarah Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Donna Straus

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation New York Blood Center Enterprises, New York, NY, United States of America

Aris Baras

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regeneron Genetics Center, Tarrytown, NY, United States of America

Christopher D. Hillyer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America, New York Blood Center Enterprises, New York, NY, United States of America

Larry L. Luchsinger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lluchsinger@nybc.org

Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Regenerative Research, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and declare the following potential competing interests: AB is Senior Vice President and Head of the Regeneron Genetics Center. JH, MJ and MF are employees of Regeneron Genetics Center. TC and SR are employees of Imanis Life Sciences, RV is an employee and phantom stockholder of Imanis Life Sciences, and SJR is a co-founder, officer, and stockholder in both Vyriad, Inc. and Imanis Life Sciences. Vyriad, Inc., Imanis Life Sciences, and Regeneron collaborated in the commercial development of the neutralization assay employed in this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.