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Want to stay up to date on important issues in anti-doping research, technology, law, policy, and more? This podcast presented by the Partnership for Clean Competition covers important topics in the anti-doping field through interviews with experts including scientists, sport organizations, athletes, and other clean sport champions. The Partnership for Clean Competition is a global non-profit organization that is protecting the integrity of sport and public health by engaging and supporting the world’s top scientists and innovators in high-quality anti-doping research and development. The mission of this podcast is to increase awareness of issues related to anti-doping, educate the public about anti-doping science, policies, and practices, as well as to inspire people to pursue careers in anti-doping professions. The Anti-Doping Podcast is hosted by Marie McNeely, PhD.
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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 clean sport, his experience as keynote speaker at our recent PCC Conference, and his current innovative endeavors in drug discovery and healthcare.
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 more.
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 others can help keep themselves safe when accessing medications online, and more.
Dr. Kevin Murray is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrative Physiology of Aging Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the recipient of this year’s PCC-sponsored Anti-Doping Postdoctoral Award in partnership with the American Physiological Society (APS). In this episode, we discuss his career path and his research, particularly focusing on his recent work studying the role extracellular vesicles may play in modulating arterial function. This research is critical for understanding the potential performance-enhancing effects of emerging extracellular vesicle therapies.
Dan Burke is the Intelligence and Investigations Director at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). In this episode, he describes USADA’s approach, tactics, and tools, for anti-doping investigations, including work in the area of cybercrime and online investigations. He also shares insights and experiences from his nearly three decades working in U.S. federal law enforcement, including his prior role as Division Chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations, where he focused on the manufacturing of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, designer steroids, and tainted dietary supplements.
Dr. 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.
Dr. Vinod Nair is Associate Laboratory Director of the WADA-Accredited Sports Medicine and Research Testing Laboratory (SMRTL). In this episode, Vinod covers how anti-doping labs strive to provide efficient and cost-effective services while maintaining the rigor and quality standards required in the industry. He explains how SMRTL incorporates automation into their lab's work and shares his thoughts on the future of automation in anti-doping laboratories. We also discussed recent research that he and colleagues published examining minimum reporting limits to determine in-competition use of stimulants.
Dr. Trine Grønhaug Halvorsen is Professor in the Section for Pharmaceutical Chemistry within the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo in Norway. In this episode, she talks about her research on dried blood spot sampling, detecting peptide doping agents in anti-doping samples, and development of smart samplers, which incorporate the initial sample preparation steps into the collection device.
Dr. Sophia Krombholz is a PCC Fellow and a Research Scientist and Research Associate at the Manfred Donike Institute for Doping Analysis in Cologne, Germany. In this episode, Sophia discusses her career path, her PCC-funded fellowship project, and other exciting anti-doping research. Dr. Krombholz's fellowship project is investigating the metabolism of anabolic steroids administered through alternative routes (transdermally or buccally) and has yielded interesting results that may help inform the interpretation of findings from anti-doping tests.
Dr. Olivier Salamin is the Operational Manager of the Lausanne Athlete Passport Management Unit (APMU) within the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses at the Lausanne University Hospital (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire vaudois/CHUV). In this episode, he discussed his career and research on the discovery and validation of biomarkers to detect prohibited substances and methods, particularly related to the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP). He also gives us an inside look at the history and operations of the Lausanne APMU.
Dr. Andy Hoofnagle is a researcher, professor, board certified pathologist, and laboratory director at the University of Washington. He is Head of the Division of Chemistry, Director of Chemistry at the UW Medical Center - Montlake, Director of Clinical Mass Spectrometry, and Director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center’s Analytic Core at the University of Washington. He is also Chair of the PCC’s Collagen Turnover Working Group. In this episode, he discusses his research and recent advances in the ability to detect growth hormone administration using biomarkers of collagen turnover. We also discussed Dr. Hoofnagle's role as a mentor for PCC Research Fellow Dr. Huu Hien Huynh and his experience as a presenter at our 2025 PCC Conference.
Dr. Maria Kristina Parr is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. In this interview, she discusses her research that has focused on understanding the metabolism of steroids and other compounds and improving our ability to detect these substances and their metabolites for anti-doping and other purposes. We covered the results from several of her latest papers, including work examining food sources of ecdysterone, metabolism of topically administered steroids in skin cells, metabolism of endogenous versus exogenous steroids, and more.
This episode features Jude Ellis, Head of Anti-Doping at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). She discusses her background, the history of the IPC, and the IPC's Anti-Doping team's responsibilities for the Paralympic Games and beyond. Our conversation also gives a brief overview of the IPC Code and covers major accomplishments related to recent anti-doping testing surrounding the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.
Professor Ian Boardley is the Head of Impact & Engagement, Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Chair of the Health and Safety Committee for the College of Life and Environmental Sciences in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham in the UK. In this episode, he discusses his research on the psychosocial processes governing moral behavior in sport and physical activity. In particular, he covers some of the important research studies he has conducted on moral disengagement in sport, anabolic-androgenic steroid dependence and craving, anti-doping education, and other areas.
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 WADA-Accredited Anti-Doping Laboratory, the lab's history (including a major move and re-accreditation), and the latest research and methods development projects she and her colleagues have been working on in the lab.
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 this episode, Brad discusses his research on muscle growth and development in meat animals, as well as potential contamination of meat with growth promoters that are relevant for anti-doping. In particular, he shares findings from a recent study, funded by the Partnership for Clean Competition, that examined residues of prohibited anabolic agents in the meat supply chain.
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 Studies and Analysis of Anti-Doping Policies”. In this episode, Ekain talks about the history and significance of UNESCO’s role in anti-doping, The International Convention Against Doping in Sport, and research projects he and his colleagues have worked on in the realm of anti-doping policy, anti-doping organizations, and more.
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 PCC-funded research projects he has led to improve anti-doping analyses by developing new gas chromatography-chemical ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-CI-MS/MS) methods, as well as a novel chromatography high-resolution acquisition screening method. Michaël also discusses recent work using high-temperature liquid chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry methods that will help improve steroid detection and potentially lead to future high-throughput analysis methods.
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 career and some of the research she has conducted examining various factors that can influence anti-doping test results including interactions with other substances, genetics, hormone cycles, biological variability, and micro-dosing.
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 Oncology at McGill University. In this episode, Christoph discusses his research in the area of proteomics and important applications of his work in anti-doping, including a PCC-funded research project examining quantitative proteomics longitudinally in blood to screen for blood doping. He also shares future directions for this line of research and his perspectives on important areas of opportunity in anti-doping science.
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