Author notes
These authors contributed equally : Mark J. Mulligan, Kirsten
E. Lyke, Nicholas Kitchin
Affiliations
Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer Inc, Hurley, UK
Nicholas Kitchin, Stephen Lockhart & Ruth Bailey
Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer Inc, Pearl River, NY, USA
Judith Absalon, Alejandra Gurtman, Kena A. Swanson, Kenneth
Koury, Warren Kalina, David Cooper, Kristin R. Tompkins, Philip R. Dormitzer,
William C. Gruber & Kathrin U. Jansen
Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, USA
Ping Li
BioNTech, Mainz,
Germany
Özlem Türeci & Uğur Şahin
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Competing interests
N.K., J.A., A.G., S.L., R.B., K.A.S., P.L., K.K., W.K.,
D.C., K.R.T., P.R.D., W.C.G. and K.U.J. are employees of Pfizer and may hold stock options. U.Ş. and Ö.T. are stock owners,
management board members and employees at BioNTech and are inventors on patents
and patent applications related to RNA technology. M.J.M., K.E.L., K.N.,
E.E.W., A.R.F., R.F. and V.R. received compensation from Pfizer for their role
as study investigators. C.F.-G. and P.-Y.S. received compensation from Pfizer
to perform the neutralization assay.