153 - Supporting Clean Sport Through Research and Routine Work at IDAS – Dresden - Sven Voss, PhD
Release Date: 07/01/2025
165 - Research Opportunities and Updates from the PCC - Rusty Smith
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Rusty Smith is Head of Research Programs at the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC). In this episode he discusses his career, his current role at the PCC, and PCC funding opportunities, including upcoming deadlines for the next cycle of PCC Research Grants and Fellowships. We also cover the PCC's research priorities, anti-doping collaborations and partnerships, goals for the future, and more.
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164 - Investigating Remote Sampling, Sample Retention and Re-Analysis, and Athlete Experiences in Anti-Doping - Daniel Westmattelmann, PhD
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Dr. Daniel Westmattelmann is Professor in Business Administration at the Private University of Economics and Technology (PHWT) in Vechta, Germany, as well as an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Münster. In this episode, he discussed his former career as a professional cyclist, his path to becoming a researcher, and some of his recent research projects. In particular, he described a PCC-funded research project that examined a remote sampling system for anti-doping. He also shared recently published work using simulations to study the impacts of sample retention...
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163 - 40 Years of Advancing Anti-Doping at the Catalonia Anti-Doping Laboratory - Rosa Ventura Alemany, PhD
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The Catalonian Anti-Doping Laboratory was established in 1985, and this year marks their 40th anniversary of operations. Dr. Rosa Ventura Alemany is Director of the laboratory, which is within the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain. In this episode, she discusses how the laboratory and the field of anti-doping have evolved over the years, some of the lab's major contributions to anti-doping science, and current research projects spanning investigations of the use of sulfate metabolites as markers to detect anabolic steroids, glucocorticoids and how to...
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162 - Leveraging Molecular Isotopic Structure in Anti-Doping Analyses - John Eiler, PhD
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Dr. John Eiler is the Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, as well as the Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. In this episode, John discusses his career, his research examining the molecular structure of isotopes, and how the approach that he and his collaborators have developed is relevant for the anti-doping community. He goes into detail on a recent PCC-funded research project investigating the use of molecular isotopic structure as a tool for doping forensics, their promising new results, and the impacts...
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161 - How Biotage Supports Scientists and Advances Anti-Doping in the North America - Esraa AboJasser and Dr. Lee Williams
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In the second episode of our two-episode mini-series featuring Biotage, Esraa AboJasser and Dr. Lee Williams share more detail about their work, particularly in the North America region. Biotage is a global supplier and solutions partner to a wide range of customers within drug discovery, drug development, and analytical testing. The company's products and solutions are critical for anti-doping laboratories, scientists conducting anti-doping research, and labs across a variety of other fields. This episode explores Biotage's consumable products, their activities in North America, their...
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160 - Biotage's Role In Protecting Clean Sport in the EMEA Region - Monika Vezse and Dr. Lee Williams
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In this episode, Monika Vezse and Dr. Lee Williams joined us to talk about their work at Biotage, a global supplier and solutions partner to a wide range of customers within drug discovery, drug development, and analytical testing. The company's portfolio includes products and solutions that are critical for anti-doping laboratories and scientists conducting anti-doping research. This is the first episode of a two-episode mini-series with Biotage team members, and this episode focuses on introducing the company, sharing it's history, talking about some of their products, and describing their...
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159 - The 13-Year Battle for Olympic Bronze and the Impacts of Doping on Clean Athletes - Shannon Rowbury
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Shannon Rowbury is an accomplished elite U.S. track athlete and three-time Olympian. She is an Olympic bronze medalist, two-time World bronze medalist, World Record Holder in the distance medley relay, former American record holder in the 1,500 meter, 2 mile, and 5,000 meter races, and she has been ranked among the top ten female track athletes in the world for a decade. In addition, Shannon is a Managing Partner at West Strategy Group and co-founder and President of Imagining More, a non-profit organization that promotes arts and athletics for youth. She is also an Emmy-Award winning...
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158 - Leading Efforts to Advance Public Health, Drug Control Policy, and Drug Discovery - Rahul Gupta, MD
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Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, is a physician, President of GATC Health Corp, and the former Director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). He was the first medical doctor to lead ONDCP, and he served as the Director from November 2021 - January 2025. Through his work, particularly at ONDCP, Dr. Gupta has made important contributions to protecting public health, which is an important component of the PCC's mission. In this interview, he discussed drug control policy in the U.S., positive outcomes from the initiatives he has led, his role in safeguarding...
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157 - Protecting Athletes and Brands with the TruShield Certification Program - Lori Bestervelt, PhD
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Dr. Lori Bestervelt is Senior Vice President of Certification Services at TruShield Certified and a member of the PCC’s Scientific Advisory Board. She was previously Chief Science Officer at NSF International for 22 years, and she has over 20 years of experience in sport certification programs. Dr. Bestervelt discussed the importance of banned substance certification, the gap in the market that TruShield Certified was created to address, the kinds of products they test and certify, how the certification process works, collaborations with other stakeholders in the anti-doping community, and...
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156 - Keeping Athletes Safe with the Rise of Online Pharmacies - John Hertig, PharmD
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John Hertig, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP, is Founder of Hertig Healthcare Advising and former faculty in the Pharmacy Practice Department in the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He is also Past-President and a current Board of Directors member of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies and is a Member of the United States Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. In this episode, he discusses his career, the online pharmacy landscape, the challenges and risks associated with illegal online pharmacies, how athletes and...
info_outlineDr. Sven Voss is Director of the Institute of Doping Analysis and Sports Biochemistry (IDAS) – Dresden, a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited doping control laboratory in Germany. In this interview, he described his career path and his experiences working at multiple anti-doping labs around the world. In particular, he provided insights on IDAS – Dresden, including its history, their routine anti-doping work, and ongoing research projects on erythropoietin (EPO), blood doping, and other areas.