Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC): Advancing anti-doping in sports – Pre-application

PCC supports high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport. Areas of investigation reflect the PCC's current research priorities:

- Developing methods of cost-effective testing to detect and deter the use of banned and illegal substances.

- Developing testing protocols to detect designer substances used for doping purposes.

- Improving existing analytical methods to detect particular drugs, ex. GH, IGF-1, EPO, hCG.

- Developing analytical methods to detect performance enhancing drugs not currently detectable.

- Longitudinal urinary excretion patterns, metabolism and dose-concentration.

- Studies to determine the changes over time observed after doping agents are applied

- Alternative specimens, (ex. oral fluid, dried blood/plasma spots) for testing.

- Critical reviews to support interpretation of laboratory data.

Funding: between $10,000 to $400,000

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