Sabino, Lorena Rodrigues https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5483-0419
Kaiko, Gerard E.
Dorahy, Douglas
Goodsall, Thomas
Jaffe, Adam
Schultz, Andre
Waters, Shafagh
Cook, Dane
Kok, Harvey
Tong, Koliarne
Totterdell, James
McGree, James
Snelling, Tom
Wark, Peter A. B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
MRFF Australia
Article History
Received: 14 October 2025
Accepted: 10 May 2026
First Online: 15 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate {24}: This study has been approved by the Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee, registration number 2023/STE01015 on May 16th 2023. Written informed consent is obtained from all participants.
Consent for publication {32}: Not applicable. No identifying images or other personal or identifiable clinical information of participants are presented here or will be presented in reports of the trial results.
Competing interests {28}: GK has a patent on an RNA therapy for CFTR, and shareholding in Akte Therapeutics a gene therapy company. TMG has received speaker fees and research support from Johnson & Johnson and speaker and advisory fees from Abbvie.The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.