The Radioactive Drug Research Committee: Background and Retrospective Study of Reported Research Data (1975-2004)

From: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Fejka, Richard; Houn, Florence; Walsh, Maria; Suleiman, Orhan H | Copyright information

In the United States, human research involving radioactive drugs must be conducted under a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational new drug (IND) application, unless specifically exempt from IND requirements, or under the direct oversight of a Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC) as long as certain conditions are met. Research overseen by RDRCs is considered basic science research when its purpose is to advance scientific knowledge and not to determine a radioactive drug's sa...

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