Table 1

Study participants and institutions.

Institution (Consortium)
Participants
Participated in:





Exp. 1 (fixed activated blood)
Exp. 2 (shipped whole blood)
Exp. 3 (cryo-preserved PBMC)
Exp. 4 (cryo-preserved PBMC with lyoplates)

University of Montreal (CANVAC)
Rafick Sekaly, Eva Roig, Claire Landry
x

x
x
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (IAVI)
Jill Gilmour, Peter Hayes
x

x
x
Uganda Virus Research Institute (IAVI)
Josephine Birungi, Omu Anzala



x
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (EUROVAC)
Giuseppe Pantaleo, Alexandre Harari, Miguel Garcia
x

x
x
Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center (HVTN)
Helen Horton ,Ruth Baydo, Ian Frank
x
x
x
x
Duke University (HVTN)
Kent Weinhold, Janet Ottinger, Megan Baker, Jennifer Holbrook
x
x

x
Vaccine Research Center, NIH
Mario Roederer, Richard Koup, Laurie Lamoreaux
x
x
x
x
Merck and Co.
Timothy Tobery, Lynda Tussey, Kara Punt
x
x
x
x
University of California, San Francisco
Barry Bredt, Elizabeth Sinclair, Lorrie Epling
x
x

x
BD Biosciences
Vernon Maino, Holden Maecker, Maria Suni
x
x
x
x
Sanofi Pasteur
Nolwenn Nougarede, Sophia El-Bahi



x
National Inst. Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Clive Gray, Hazel Maila



x
Massachusetts General Hospital
Marcus Altfeld, Gailet Alter



x
University of Pennsylvania
Jean Boyer, Sandra Calarota



x
Henry Jackson Foundation
Josephine Cox, Ellen Kuta



x

Financial and Operational Support: Aline Rinfret, CANVAC; Patricia D'Souza, NIAID, NIH; Janice Darden, NIAID, NIH

Maecker et al. BMC Immunology 2005 6:13   doi:10.1186/1471-2172-6-13