About the Authors

Dawn K. Slifka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Najít Technologies, Incorporated, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Hans-Peter Raué

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Whitney C. Weber

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Takeshi F. Andoh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Craig N. Kreklywich

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Victor R. DeFilippis

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Daniel N. Streblow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America, Division of Pathobiology and Immunology, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Mark K. Slifka

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Najít Technologies, Incorporated, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Ian J. Amanna

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

iamanna@najittech.com

Affiliation Najít Technologies, Incorporated, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: OHSU, D.K.S., M.K.S., and I.J.A. have a financial interest in Najít Technologies, Inc., a company that may have a commercial interest in the results of this research and technology. This potential individual and institutional conflict of interest has been reviewed and managed by OHSU and Najít Technologies, Inc. I.J.A. is an inventor on US patent No. 10,744,198 entitled, Inorganic polyatomic oxyanions for protecting against antigenic damage during pathogen inactivation for vaccine production and US patent No. 11,141,475 entitled, Inactivating pathogens and producing highly immunogenic inactivated vaccines using a dual oxidation process. M.K.S. is an inventor on US patent Nos. 8,124,397 and 8,716,000 entitled Inactivating Pathogens with Oxidizing Agents for Vaccine Production. H.P.R., V.R.F., W.C.W., C.N.K., T.F.A. and D.N.S. declare no competing interests exist. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.