About the Authors

Alexey V. Gribenko

alexey.gribenko@pfizer.com

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Kevin Parris

Affiliation Pfizer Protein Engineering and Production, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lidia Mosyak

Affiliation Pfizer Protein Engineering and Production, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sheng Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Luke Handke

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Julio C. Hawkins

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Elena Severina

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Yury V. Matsuka

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Annaliesa S. Anderson

Affiliation Pfizer Vaccine Research and Development, Pearl River, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of the manuscript have the following competing interests: AVG, KP, LM, LH, ES, YVM, JCH and ASA are current or former employees of Pfizer Inc and as such may own company stock. SL has no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AVG ASA. Formal analysis: AVG KP LM JCH ES YVM. Investigation: AVG ES KP LM SL JCH LH. Methodology: AVG SL ES YVM JCH LH KP LM. Project administration: AVG ASA. Supervision: AVG ASA. Validation: AVG ES. Visualization: AVG ES JCH KP. Writing – original draft: AVG. Writing – review & editing: AVG YVM ASA SL LM LH.