Endocrine Insider
February 5, 2010

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The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) is an innovative research collaborative that aims to ensure integrity in sport through the funding of high-quality, high-impact novel research.  The PCC considers research that has a high likelihood of developing new methods and products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport.

Society member Fred Schaufele, PhD of the University of California San Francisco, was among recipients announced in late January. Dr. Schaufele’s research offers an innovative approach to detecting any steroid, including designer steroids, and aims to detect the interaction between the prohibited steroid and the receptor through modern cell biology techniques.   Dr. Schaufele said his “goal is to attack the pipeline of performance enhancing drugs by providing an effective, cheap and rapid method that immediately alerts us to the presence of previously unknown anabolic drugs emerging within the athletic community.”

The PCC’s next deadline for pre-applications is March 1, 2010. More information and application materials are available on the PCC website at www.cleancompetition.org.