The PCC catalyzes an impact on sport through our funding. The research we support is conducted by scientists of the highest caliber, on topics exclusive to improving anti-doping knowledge. Often, the research we fund represents unique pilot projects not being explored [...]
The integrity of sport is worth protecting. The science of anti-doping must be flexible enough to stay ahead of athletes and other support professionals who make the wrong choices when it comes to the use of performance-enhancing substances. Anti-doping science [...]
The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) will turn eight years old on May 9th, 2016. This marks eight years of funding pre-eminent research related to enhancing anti-doping testing methodologies and demonstrating (or debunking) performance enhancing properties of a myriad of substances. [...]
Since 2009, the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) has been funding the world's preeminent anti-doping experts, providing over $15 million to date. Projects funded by the PCC support clean competition while standing up to the scientific scrutiny and oversight of our [...]
REUTERS BY: BEN KLAYMAN 3/16/16 Several major U.S. sports leagues are pushing to add the drug that led to a positive test for Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova to their banned list, but in many cases they will need player [...]
THE GUARDIAN BY: LES ROOPANARINE 3/15/16 The UN has suspended Maria Sharapova as a goodwill ambassador following the Russian tennis star's admission that she tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at the Australian Open in January. The UN Development [...]
NEW YORK TIMES BY: CHRISTOPHER CLEARY 3/13/16 Larry Bowers, the chief science officer for the United States Anti-Doping Agency, gave a presentation on Oct. 4, 2014, at the organization's Symposium on Anti-Doping Science. Dr. Bowers stood before a small, international [...]
NEW YORK TIMES BY: PATRICK REEVELL 3/9/16 The fallout from Maria Sharapova's failed drug test has ensnared her native Russia as it becomes clear that the banned substance found in her system is creating wider problems for Russian sports. Sharapova, [...]
USA TODAY BY: CHRISTINE BRENNAN 3/9/16 A tip from a confidential source to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in March 2014 that Eastern European athletes were using the drug meldonium as a performance enhancer triggered the doping scandal that now has [...]
WIRED ERIC NIILER 3/8/16 MY MOM TOOK erythropoietin—EPO. It helped her tired, anemic body pump out more red blood cells for years before it became the drug of choice for professional cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I [...]
