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18 02, 2025

144 – Anti-Doping Excellence at the Helsinki Doping Control Laboratory – Tina Suominen, PhD

By |2025-02-18T09:22:48-07:00February 18th, 2025|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Tina Suominen is Director of the Helsinki Doping Control Laboratory within the Forensic Chemistry Unit at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Helsinki, Finland. In this episode, she discusses her role as Director of a [...]

4 02, 2025

143 – Exploring Potential Contamination of Meat with Anabolic Agents and Other Prohibited Substances – Brad Johnson, PhD

By |2025-02-04T07:44:05-07:00February 4th, 2025|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Brad Johnson is the Gordon W. Davis Regent's Chair in Meat Science and Muscle Biology and Professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. In [...]

21 01, 2025

142 – UNESCO’s Role in Protecting Athletes’ Health and Preventing Doping in Sport – Ekain Zubizarreta, PhD

By |2025-01-21T06:01:59-07:00January 21st, 2025|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Ekain Zubizarreta is a Lecturer at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, and he is also a member of the research laboratory ISP at Paris Nanterre University in France, which hosts the UNESCO Chair in “Doping [...]

7 01, 2025

141 – Developing More Sensitive, Comprehensive, and Efficient Anti-Doping Analysis Methods – Michaël Polet, PhD

By |2025-01-07T05:37:01-07:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Michaël Polet is a faculty member in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Head of the IRMS (isotope ratio mass spectrometry) Department in the Doping Control Laboratory (DoCoLab) at Ghent University in Belgium. In this episode, he discusses [...]

6 01, 2025

Improving Steroid Detection Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry

By |2025-01-06T08:08:32-07:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: Blog|

To gain an unfair advantage over competitors, some athletes may resort to sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs that are marketed as “undetectable” in drug tests. However, recent PCC-funded research may soon put the brakes on this behavior with the introduction of methods [...]

17 12, 2024

140 – Conducting Research to Improve Doping Tests for Steroids and Other Substances – Lena Ekström, PhD

By |2024-12-17T09:21:38-07:00December 17th, 2024|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Lena Ekström is a Hospital Chemist at Karolinska University Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, where she specializes in Doping Research. In this interview, we discuss her [...]

3 12, 2024

139 – Applying Targeted Proteomics Approaches in Anti-Doping Research – Christoph Borchers, PhD

By |2024-12-03T06:29:09-07:00December 3rd, 2024|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Christoph Borchers is a Full Member in the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Director of the Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre, and Professor in the Department of [...]

19 11, 2024

138 – How the Team USA Athletes’ Commission is Empowering Athletes and the Athlete Voice – Elizabeth Ramsey

By |2024-11-19T06:37:21-07:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: Podcast|

Elizabeth Ramsey, Executive Director of the Team USA Athletes' Commission (formerly the USOPC Athletes’ Advisory Council) joins this episode to discuss how the Commission is working to empower Team USA athletes to inspire and drive positive change. She shares how [...]

5 11, 2024

137 – Investigating the Science Behind Doping Motivations and Psychosocial Predictors of Doping – Nikos Ntoumanis, PhD

By |2024-11-05T06:26:37-07:00November 5th, 2024|Categories: Podcast|

Dr. Nikos Ntoumanis is Professor and Director in the Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science in the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark. In this episode, Nikos discusses important research he [...]

15 10, 2024

136 – Anti-Doping Research and Innovation at the UK’s Drug Control Center – Kim Wolff, PhD

By |2024-10-15T06:08:51-06:00October 15th, 2024|Categories: Podcast|

Professor Kim Wolff is Director of King’s Forensics and head of the Drug Control Centre, which is the only WADA accredited laboratory for sports testing in the United Kingdom. She is also Director of the London Athlete Passport Management [...]