investigational

American  

[in-ves-ti-gay-shuhn-uhl] / ɪnˌvɛs tɪˈgeɪ ʃən əl /

adjective

1. relating to, engaged in, or involving investigation, or any process of thorough examination, research, inquiry, etc.

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Example Sentences

The Swiss pharmaceutical company said Monday that the combination of its investigational drug, giredestrant, with Pfizer’s Ibrance didn’t meet the primary objective of a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival in patients with advanced breast cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that children with Dravet syndrome experienced seizure reductions of up to 91 percent while regularly receiving an investigational drug called zorevunersen.

From Science Daily

The FDA said the biotech company’s trial data failed to demonstrate the effectiveness of its investigational Huntington’s disease therapy.

From Barron's

Working with FDA scientists who processed their single-patient investigational new drug application within a week, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treated a newborn who had a fatal genetic disorder with a first-ever personalized gene-editing therapy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Arcellx investors will also receive non-transferable contingent value rights worth an additional $5 a share based on future sales of Arcellx’s lead pipeline candidate anitocabtagene autoleucel, or anito-cel, an investigational CAR T-cell therapy for patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma.

From The Wall Street Journal