1 06, 2022

Anti-doping research funding available; deadline for pre-applications July 1st

By |2022-06-01T07:46:07-06:00June 1st, 2022|Categories: Blog|

The Partnership for Clean Competition offers funding to scientists all over the world who contribute to research that impacts anti-doping. What falls under that umbrella? Any science that contributes to the PCC’s research priorities: Developing methods of cost-effective testing to detect [...]

22 04, 2022

PCC Award for Published Advances in Anti-Doping recognizes work on misleading EPO variant

By |2022-04-22T07:15:21-06:00April 22nd, 2022|Categories: Blog|

The Partnership for Clean Competition announced its first Award for Published Advances in Anti-Doping. The award goes to the WADA-accredited anti-doping lab in China for their leadership on the paper Discovery of c.577del in EPO: Investigations into endogenous EPO double-band detected [...]

18 04, 2022

PCC to Announce Award for Published Advances in Anti-Doping

By |2022-04-18T08:13:18-06:00April 18th, 2022|Categories: Blog|

The Partnership for Clean Competition will announce a winner for the organization’s first Award for Published Advances in Anti-Doping on April 22, 2022. Sharing the overall ideal and mission of clean sport with the annual conference in memoriam of Professor Manfred [...]

29 03, 2022

PCC launches new report reminder system April 1st

By |2022-03-29T08:08:19-06:00March 29th, 2022|Categories: Blog|

Researchers that are awarded funding by the Partnership for Clean Competition know their funding agreement includes a series of reports, the most notable being a final scientific and final budget report. In order to streamline the reporting process, we integrated it [...]

21 03, 2022

“Game-Changer”: BBC StoryWorks, Thermo Fisher explore importance of developments in mass spectrometry

By |2022-03-21T08:59:03-06:00March 21st, 2022|Categories: Blog|

BBC StoryWorks, supported by Thermo Fisher and aided by the Partnership for Clean Competition, put together a short documentary on some of the scientific technologies being leveraged to fight doping in sport. The short film highlights the predicament of clean athletes [...]

7 03, 2022

PCC-funded researchers learn new fundamentals of Beta-2 agonists

By |2022-03-07T08:24:49-07:00March 7th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

A research team led by Mississippi State University’s Dr. Amanda Patrick recently completed a PCC-funded project on beta-2 agonists, revealing new fundamentals of how the prohibited substances behave in a mass spectrometry environment. These findings could lay the groundwork for better [...]