Biggs, Katie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-7417
Ditta, Shamila https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7094-3053
Bageta, Maria L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7923
Lopez-Balboa, Pablo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9944-719X
Glover, Rachel
Hutchence, Kate https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-2844
Papaioannou, Diana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-0822
Julious, Steven https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9917-7636
Cooper, Cindy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2995-5447
Petrof, Gabriela https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8113-0373
Martinez, Anna E. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1738-8008
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Collaboration (NIHR127963)
Cure EB (Cure EB)
Article History
Received: 23 October 2025
Accepted: 27 March 2026
First Online: 3 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the North East York Research Ethics Committee (reference 21/NE/0016). Ethical approval for the interviews were sought alongside the trial ethical approval with an amendment on 4th March 2022. Participants were given an information sheet relating to the interviews once they had been recruited to the main trial and written consent was taken prior to the interviews.
: Not applicable.
: AEM has received payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations or educational events from Amryt Pharma and Krystal Biotech and investigator in current clinical trial with TWi Biotechnology. GP has received payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speaker bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events, from Amryt Pharma, Sanofi, Krystal Biotech, Pfizer, and Incyte. PLB and MLB are involved in previous and current clinical trials with Rheacell GmbH & Co. KG. MLB is a co-investigator in current clinical trials with TWi biotechnology. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests. INmune Bio provided the cells for the trial, but they had no input to the conduct or interpretation of the trial or the qualitative study and the clinicians listed above with competing interests were not involved in the conduct of the interviews and did not undertake analysis, but delivered the trial and helped with the interpretation.