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Kither begins dosing in COPD trial of KIT2014

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5 October 2026

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Australia

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Fusion42 · 5 October 2026 · Fusion42 review

Kither Biotech has begun dosing patients in a phase 1b/2a clinical trial in Australia testing KIT2014, an inhaled peptide therapy targeting moderate to severe COPD, to evaluate safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and early efficacy signals.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Biotech.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

Your respiratory drug development just got a new competitor entering clinical trials with a novel inhaled peptide for COPD. Early safety results clear a path to patient recruitment and biomarker exploration this quarter.

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1 source · 5 Oct 2026

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