About the Authors

David Easterhoff

david.easterhoff@duke.edu (DE); barton.haynes@duke.edu (BFH)

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Anthony Moody

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniela Fera

Affiliation Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hao Cheng

Affiliation Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Margaret Ackerman

Affiliation Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Kevin Wiehe

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kevin O. Saunders

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Justin Pollara

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nathan Vandergrift

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Rob Parks

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jerome Kim

Current address: International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Robert J. O’Connell

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Directorate, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Jean-Louis Excler

Current address: International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliations US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Sandhya Vasan

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Directorate, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Thai Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Jaranit Kaewkungwal

Affiliation Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuttithum

Affiliation Royal Thai Army Component, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Sorachai Nitayaphan

Affiliation Royal Thai Army Component, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand

Faruk Sinangil

Affiliation GSID, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

James Tartaglia

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sanjay Phogat

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas B. Kepler

Affiliation Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

S. Munir Alam

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Hua-Xin Liao

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Guido Ferrari

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael S. Seaman

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen C. Harrison

Affiliation Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

david.easterhoff@duke.edu (DE); barton.haynes@duke.edu (BFH)

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector is a Sanofi Pasteur patented product. JT and SP are employed by Sanofi Pasteur.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BFH. Data curation: DE DF HC MA MAM JP NV SMA GF DCM GDT SCH BFH. Formal analysis: NV. Funding acquisition: BFH. Investigation: DE DF HC RP. Methodology: MAM MA RP HXL GF DCM GDT. Project administration: DE MAM MA KW KOS RP SMA HXL GF MSS DCM GDT SCH BFH. Resources: JKi NLM RJO JLE MLR SV SN JKa PP SRN FS JT SP TBK. Software: TBK. Supervision: MAM MA KOS SMA GF MSS DCM GDT SCH BFH. Validation: DE DF MAM HC MA JP RP SMA GF MSS DCM GDT SCH BFH. Visualization: DE DF JP GF. Writing – original draft: DE BFH. Writing – review & editing: DE DF HC MA KW RJO JP NLM MLR GF MSS SCH BFH.