About the Authors

Colette Cywes-Bentley

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

‡ These authors are joint first authors and contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Joana N. Rocha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

‡ These authors are joint first authors and contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Angela I. Bordin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Mariana Vinacur

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Safia Rehman

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Tanweer S. Zaidi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Mark Meyer

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Mg Biologics, Ames, IA, United States of America

Sarah Anthony

Roles Resources

Affiliation Mg Biologics, Ames, IA, United States of America

McKenzie Lambert

Roles Resources

Affiliation Mg Biologics, Ames, IA, United States of America

Daniel R. Vlock

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ALOPEXX Vaccine LLC, Concord, MA, United States of America

Steeve Giguère

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Noah D. Cohen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ncohen@cvm.tamu.edu (NDC); gpier@bwh.harvard.edu (GBP)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Gerald B. Pier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ncohen@cvm.tamu.edu (NDC); gpier@bwh.harvard.edu (GBP)

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Gerald B. Pier is an inventor of intellectual properties [human monoclonal antibody to PNAG and PNAG vaccines] that are licensed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital to Alopexx Vaccine, LLC, and Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, LLC, entities in which GBP also holds equity. As an inventor of intellectual properties, GBP also has the right to receive a share of licensing-related income (royalties, fees) through Brigham and Women’s Hospital from Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, LLC, and Alopexx Vaccine, LLC. GBP’s interests were reviewed and are managed by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners Healthcare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. Colette Cywes-Bentley is an inventor of intellectual properties [use of human monoclonal antibody to PNAG and use of PNAG vaccines] that are licensed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital to Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, LLC. As an inventor of intellectual properties, CC-B also has the right to receive a share of licensing-related income (royalties, fees) through Brigham and Women’s Hospital from Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Noah D. Cohen has received an unrestricted gift to the EIDL from Alopexx Vaccines, LLC. Daniel Vlock, holds an equity share and potential royalty income from Alopexx Vaccines, LLC for vaccines to PNAG and monoclonal antibody to PNAG from Alopexx Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Mark Meyer holds minority equity shares of Mg Biologics, Inc. Sarah Anthony and McKenzie Lambert are employees of Mg Biologics, Inc.