Research Funding Opportunity in Steroid Hormone Testing
Endocrine Insider February 19, 2009
The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC), a group of large sports organizations founded by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and National Football League (NFL), will make targeted grants in support of research focused on the development of more effective tests for performance enhancing substances. The grants are available to researchers at universities and other world-class research institutions. The PCC’s mission is to ensure integrity in sport by supporting anti-doping research, thereby ensuring the benefits of sports across all levels of participation.
Potential research areas include, but are not limited to:
• Improving existing analytical methods for detecting particular drugs • Developing analytical methods to test for performance-enhancing drugs not currently detectable • Discovering cost effective approaches for testing widely abused substances across all levels of sport
Pre-application deadlines are March 1, July 1, and November 1.
The founding partners (USOC, USADA, MLB, and NFL) have together pledged $10 million toward the effort. The National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL) and the PGA TOUR are also participating and contributing financially.
Society members Gerhard P. Baumann, MD, and Alvin M. Matsumoto, MD, are among the members of the PCC’s scientific advisory board.
