About the Authors

Luca Schifanella

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Susan W. Barnett

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Current address: HIV Vaccine Product and Clinical Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Massimiliano Bissa

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Veronica Galli

Roles Methodology

Current address: Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Melvin N. Doster

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Monica Vaccari

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaoying Shen

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sanjay Phogat

Roles Resources

Current address: Head Discovery Performance Unit, GSK Vaccines, Siena, Italy

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

Ranajit Pal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Celia C. LaBranche

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mangala Rao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

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

Hung V. Trinh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

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

Robyn Washington-Parks

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Namal P. M. Liyanage

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dallas R. Brown

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Frank Liang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Karin Loré

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

David J. Venzon

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Biostatistics and Data Management Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

William Magnanelli

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Metrinko

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Josh Kramer

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew Breed

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Sciences Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Galit Alter

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

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

Ruth M. Ruprecht

Roles Resources

Current address: New Iberia Research Center, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, New Iberia, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Genoveffa Franchini

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

franchig@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.