About the Authors

Alison E. Mahan

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison E. Mahan, Madeleine F. Jennewein

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Madeleine F. Jennewein

Contributed equally to this work with: Alison E. Mahan, Madeleine F. Jennewein

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Todd Suscovich

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kendall Dionne

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacquelynne Tedesco

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amy W. Chung

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hendrik Streeck

Affiliation Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Pau

Affiliation Crucell, Leiden, Netherlands

Hanneke Schuitemaker

Affiliations Crucell, Leiden, Netherlands, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Don Francis

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Patricia Fast

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Dagna Laufer

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America

Bruce D. Walker

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lindsey Baden

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan H. Barouch

Affiliations Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Galit Alter

galter@partners.org

Affiliation Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MP and HSc are both employed by Crucell. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GA AEM TS. Performed the experiments: AEM KD JT MFJ. Analyzed the data: AEM MFJ AWC TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHB HSc DL PF LB DF HSt MP BDW. Wrote the paper: MFJ AEM GA TS BDW.