How to Use investigational in a Sentence

investigational

adjective

• Later in 1962, Kelsey was named head of the FDA’s new investigational drug branch.
  — Nancy Kriplen, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Later in 1962, Kelsey was named head of the FDA’s new investigational drug branch.
  — Nancy Kriplen, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2017
• The idea is this would be an investigational vaccine that was stored.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 20 July 2023
• Volunteers will receive either a dose of the investigational vaccine or a placebo and will be in the trial for up to two years and one month.
  — Naseem S. Miller, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• At that time, the drug was still in the investigational phase and not yet approved by the F.D.A. for administration to adult women, let alone minor teenagers.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• The investigational compound is the first such medicine to deliver more than 20% weight loss on average, compared to placebo, in a Phase 3 study.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• The step after that would be to apply for an investigational device.
  — Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• The study involved ten large companies, which were not named, and 106 investigational drugs, also not named.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2017
• Beth-Ann Coller, the team leader on the Ebola vaccine, said all existing stock of the vaccine is investigational — it was made before the vaccine was licensed.
  — Helen Branswell, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
• There is twice as much chance of receiving the investigational vaccine than of receiving the placebo.
  — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
• But now ultra-rapid sequencing is moving from an investigational tool to a standard of care.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
• All the participants will either receive a standard dose or a high dose of the investigational vaccine.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2017
• Remdesivir is approved to treat Covid-19 in Japan, but is considered an investigational treatment for Covid-19 elsewhere in the world, Gilead noted.
  — John Bonifield, CNN, 1 June 2020
• With such promising lab results, the team got an emergency investigational new drug approval from the Food and Drug Administration to treat the sick doctor with their pond phage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2018
• The company will now focus on two Covid-19 investigational medicines and other Covid-19 research, the statement added.
  — NBC News, 25 Jan. 2021
• Many of these investigational therapies are available on the New Lenox campus.
  — chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• The company plans to file four investigational new drug applications by the end of 2021, according to Session.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
• Wesana plans on submitting an investigational new drug application with the FDA during the first quarter of next year.
  — Tim Casey, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Much of this rise can be attributed to its investigational drug - Simufilam - for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease moving to late stage clinical trials.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Initially, testing for mpox was limited to select labs and medical professionals, who had to weave through a mesh of red tape to order them and to prescribe Tpoxx, an investigational drug used to treat the virus.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• It was made available to the president through what’s known as a compassionate use program, where a drug company and the FDA can grant access to an investigational drug to patients for whom other treatments have not worked.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• The demand for investigational vaccines and therapies will be very high.
  — Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• Patients, under the advice of their doctors, would be able to reach out to a drug manufacturer to request an investigational therapy without having to go through the FDA.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2018
• The windfall of pleas began on March 24, when the FDA gave the greenlight to expand convalescent plasma treatments for investigational purposes.
  — Tom Hanson, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2020
• Patients do not pay to participate in trials or for investigational drugs, but may incur costs for transportation, child care, or lose income from not working.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 June 2022
• The bill would, in effect, allow dying patients to bypass the Food and Drug Administration and obtain an ‘investigational drug’ with the approval of their doctors, if the drug manufacturer agrees to supply it.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• When the press release was issued, results were available for eight volunteers on the question of whether the investigational vaccine had produced neutralizing antibodies to the virus.
  — Robert Kuznia, CNN, 1 June 2020
• So, too, with the pause in Eli Lilly’s trial, which compares the company’s investigational antibody treatment against Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 13 Oct. 2020
• The study scientists then compare the new device with the positive control to determine whether the investigational device is working properly.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
• The company has amassed a trove of data, from public sources and proprietary work, on how small chemical tweaks affect the metabolism, absorption, and toxicity of investigational drugs.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024