Funded Projects

The PCC has supported world-class research since 2008, investing more than $26 M to drive novel science. Research and grant-making are the foundation of the PCC and are the focus of everyday business activity. PCC-supported research contributes to a movement in addressing doping’s root causes and ultimately decreasing the use of performance-enhancing drugs by all participants in all sports at all levels of play.

Funded PCC projects represent proposals from 17 different countries and three continents. Nearly 90 principle investigators have been awarded grants to advance anti-doping knowledge through more than 100 unique research projects. Projects which showcase alignment with the PCC research priorities are given funding precedence.

Please contact us if you have questions regarding individual projects listed here.

Fellowships

Funded: 2018

Fellow:
Dr. Scott Lacombe, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin.

Mentor:
Dr. Herbert Tobias; Dell Pediatric Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Tom Brenna; Dell Pediatric Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Research Title:

Validation of ARC Catalytic Combustion Reactors for Fast GCC-IRMS and
GC×GCC-IRMS

Funded: 2018

Fellow:
Dr. Jacob Bejder, University of Copenhagen

Mentor:
Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg, University of Copenhagen

Research Title:

Improving detection of erythropoiesis stimulating agents and glucocorticoids

Funded: 2018

Fellow:
Dr. Danielle Moncrieffe, King’s College London Drug Control Centre

Mentor:
Prof. David Cowan; King’s College London Drug Control Centre

Research Title:

Improving sample preparation for the quantification of low level proteins in blood

Funded: 2018

Fellow:
Dr. Laura Lewis; Australian Catholic University

Mentor:
Dr. Daniel Eichner, SMRTL

Research Title:

Influence of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) on the Athlete Biological Passport

Funded: 2016

Fellow:
Dr. Liying Jiang; King’s College London Drug Control Centre

Mentor:
Dr. David Cowan; King’s College London Drug Control Centre

Research Title:

Strategy for cost reduction in doping test using UPLC-ESPI-TOFMS for urine and DESI-QTOFMS for DBS

Funded: 2014

Fellow:
Dr. Geoff Miller; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Mentor:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Research Title:

Assessing hydration status through evaluation of albumin osmolality and lactate for the ABP

Funded: 2012

Fellow:
Dr. Bryan Kelly; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Mentor:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Micro-Grants

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Funded: 2014

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Pauline Rudd; National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT)

Funded: 2014

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Funded: 2014

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Professor David Handelsman; ANZAC Research Institute

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Lena Ekstrom; Karolinska Instituet

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Maria Kristina Parr; Freie Universitat Berlin

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Jack Henion; Q2 Solutions

Funded: 2017

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Robert Chapman; Indiana University

Funded: 2016

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Herb Tobias; Dell Pediatric Research Institute

Funded: 2017

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Pozo Mendoza; IMIM: Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques

Funded: 2017

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mariana Renovato Martins; Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Funded: 2017

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Robert Chapman, Indiana University

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. James Hopker, University of Kent

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Roger Giese, Northeastern University

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. G. Reverter Fundació, IMIM

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Usmanov D.T., Academy of Science Uzbekistan

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg, University of Copenhagen

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Malcolm McLeod, Australian National University

Funded: 2018

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Ole Jensen, University of Southern Denmark

Funded: 2019

Principle Investigators:
Dr. Owen Davies, Loughborough University

Dr. Liam Heaney, Loughborough University

Funded: 2019

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Funded: 2019

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Funded: 2019

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Yvette Dehnes, Norwegian Doping Control Laboratory

Working Groups

Principle Investigators:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)
Dr. David Cowan; King’s College London Drug Control Centre
Dr. Anthony Butch; UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory
Dr. Andy Hoofnagle; University of Washington

Principle Investigators:
Dr. Marilyn Huestis; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH)
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Marilyn Huestis; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH)

Principle Investigator:

Dr. John Higgins; Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg; University of Copenhagen
Dr. Jakob Bejder; University of Copenhagen
Dr. Daniel Eichner, SMRTL
Dr. James Cox, University of Utah
Dr. Merav Socolovsky, U Mass Medical School
Dr. Maziyar Baran Pouyan, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Dr. John Phillips, University of Utah
Dr. Steve Elliott, PCC Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Mike Sawka, PCC Scientific Advisory Board

Center of Excellence (Lab Equipment) Grants

2019 Grants

Principle Investigator:

Prof. Francesco Botré, Federazione Medico Sportiva Italiana

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Alexandre Marchand, French Anti-Doping Agency

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Michaël Polet, Ghent University

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Federico Ponzetto, University of Turin

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Robert Roach, University of Colorado-Denver

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Fred Schaufele, XCellAssay

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Daniel Eichner, Sports Medicine Research And Testing Laboratory

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Christopher Chouinard, Florida Institute of Technology

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Andrew Jones, Activated Research

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Soledad Rubio Bravo, University of Cordoba

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Owen Davies, Loughborough University

Principle Investigator:

Univ-Prof. Dr. Mario Thevis, German Sport University Cologne

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Daniel Eichner, Sports Medicine Research And Testing Laboratory

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Yvette Dehnes, Norwegian Doping Control Laboratory

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Michaël Polet, Ghent University

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Jason Whitfield, The University of Queensland

Principle Investigator:

Prof. Ajit Shah, Middlesex University London

Principle Investigator:

Dr. John Higgins, Massachusetts General Hospital

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg, University of Copenhagen

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Jen-Tsan Chi, Duke University

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Cleo Van Diemen, University of Groningen

Principle Investigator:

J.L. Clark

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Daniel Eichner, Sports Medicine Research And Testing Laboratory

2018 Grants

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Christoph Borchers, McGill University

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Marijke Grau, German Sport University Cologne

Principle Investigator:

Dr. David Handelsman, ANZAC Research Institute, University of Sydney

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Nicholas Leuenberger, Lausanne University Hospital

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Carsten Lundby, University of Zurich

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Alexandre Marchand, AFLD

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Mario Thevis, Sport University Cologne

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Herbert Tobias, University of Texas at Austin

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Michael Polet, University of Ghent

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Laura Garvican, Australian Catholic University

Principle Investigator:

Activated Research Company (ARC)

Associated Project:

Steroidome Analysis

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Associated Project:

Exhaled Breath

Principle Investigator:

Dr. Daniel Eichner, SMRTL

Associated Project:

Exhaled Breath

Principle Investigator:

Comprehensive Drug Testing, LTD (CDT)

Associated Project:

Exhaled Breath

2017 Grants

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Raul Nicoli; Swiss Anti-Doping Laboratory

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Zach Gagnon; John Hopkins University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Jentsan Chi; Duke University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nicholas Turner; The Open University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Corinne Buisson; AFLD – Agence française de lutte contre le dopage

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Jentsan Chi; Duke University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Christiane Ayotte; INRS Santé

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Paul Armishaw; National Measurement Institute

2016 Grants

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nicolas Voelcker; Monash University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. James Harynuk; University of Alberta
Dr. Fred West; University of Alberta

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Emad Kiriakous; Queensland University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Fred Schaufele; Xcell Assay

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Gaetano Cairo; University of Milan

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Christiane Ayotte; INRS Santé

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Judith Su; University of Arizona

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg; University of Copenhagen

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Mario Thevis; German Sport University Cologne

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Herb Tobias; Dell Pediatric Research Institute

2015 Grants

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Jack Henion; Q2 Solutions

Principle Investigators:
Dr. Peter Van Eenoo; University of Ghent Doping Control Laboratory
Dr. Michael Polet; University of Ghent

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Herbert Tobias; Cornell University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Eleftherios Diamandis; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Paul Gregorevic; Baker IDI and Diabetes Institute

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Laura Garvican-Lewis; Australian Institute of Sport

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nikolai Nordsborg; University of Copenhagen

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Paul Armishaw; National Measurement Institute

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Stephen Davies; National Measurement Institute

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Lore Geldof; University of Ghent

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Chris Harrison; San Diego State University

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Christian Reichel; Seibersdorf Labor GmbH Doping Control Laboratory

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Richard Yost; University of Florida

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Daniel Eichner; Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL)

Principle Investigator:
Dr. Nicolas Voelcker; Monash University, Australia

2014 Grants