The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) supports high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport. Funded projects typically address the improvement of existing analytical methods for detecting particular drugs, the development of analytical methods to test for performance-enhancing drugs not currently detectable, and discovering cost effective approaches for testing widely abused substances across all levels of sport. The ongoing research priorities of the PCC can be found listed at http://www.cleancompetition.org/research-priorities.aspx.

In an effort to address priority research areas to the PCC, the organization may motivate specific research topics by calling for requests for proposals.

The PCC is currently requesting proposals for the following topic(s):

• Detection of Human Growth Hormone Use
• Detection of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) using low volume and alternative specimens

Applicants must complete a pre-application prior to submitting a full proposal. The screening of pre-applications is meant to ensure alignment between the research project and the PCC's objectives and to ascertain basic scientific merit of the approach.

The PCC considers applications three times per year, with pre-applications due March 1, July 1 and November 1.