About the Authors

Nitin Hingankar

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitin Hingankar, Suprit Deshpande

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Suprit Deshpande

Contributed equally to this work with: Nitin Hingankar, Suprit Deshpande

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

Affiliation IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Payel Das

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Zaigham Abbas Rizvi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Immuno-biology Lab, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, Immunology Core, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Constantinos Kurt Wibmer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

Poppy Mashilo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

Mohammed Yousuf Ansari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Alison Burns

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shawn Barman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Fangzhu Zhao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sohini Mukherjee

Roles Investigation

Affiliations IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, IAVI, New York, United States of America, IAVI, New Delhi, India

Jonathan L. Torres

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Souvick Chattopadhyay

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Farha Mehdi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Jyoti Sutar

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, IAVI, New York, United States of America, IAVI, New Delhi, India

Deepak Kumar Rathore

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Immunology Core, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Kamal Pargai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Bioassay laboratory, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Janmejay Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Bioassay laboratory, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Sudipta Sonar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Kamini Jakhar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Jyotsna Dandotiya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Immuno-biology Lab, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, Immunology Core, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Sankar Bhattacharyya

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Shailendra Mani

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

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Sweety Samal

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Savita Singh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Pallavi Kshetrapal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Ramachandran Thiruvengadam

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Gaurav Batra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Guruprasad Medigeshi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, Bioassay laboratory, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Andrew B. Ward

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shinjini Bhatnagar

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Amit Awasthi

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Immuno-biology Lab, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, Immunology Core, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Devin Sok

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

DSok@iavi.org (DS); JBhattacharya@iavi.org, JBhattacharya@thsti.res.in (JB)

Affiliations Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, IAVI, New York, United States of America

Jayanta Bhattacharya

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

DSok@iavi.org (DS); JBhattacharya@iavi.org, JBhattacharya@thsti.res.in (JB)

Affiliations IAVI HIV Vaccine Translational Research Laboratory, IAVI-THSTI partnership program, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India, IAVI, New York, United States of America, IAVI, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JB, NH, PD, SD, PK, RT, AA are listed as inventors in a pending provisional patent application in India (Application No: 202111038519, filed on August 25, 2021) and same inventors in addition to ZAR are listed in a second provisional patent application in India (Application No”202111059095) filed on December 17, 2021.