Professor Matthias Bureik from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University in China, Professor Maria Parr from the Free University Berlin, Germanyhotlink to http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/tsp/2017/tsp-april-2017/riesensprung-in-der-doping-analyse/index.html, and Professor Francesco Botrè from the Laboratorio Anti-doping FMSI, Italy, have been successful in progressing their international collaboration in anti-doping research and have received further funds from the World-Anti-Doping-Agency (WADA). Hotlink tohttps://www.wada-ama.org
WADA is committed to increasing the volume of research dedicated to developing new and improved detection methods. Since 2001 WADA has granted US $69 million dollars for research. The Bureik group received RMB 190,000 (19万) for their 2015 grant and funding for the Bureik group more than doubled in 2016 with a further funding of RMB 410,000 (41万).
In 2015 and 2016 the collaboration between Prof. Parr in Germany, Prof. Botrè in Italy and Prof. Bureik in China achieved excellent results, such that they were easily supported by WADA. In the past, Prof. Parr and Prof. Bureik had already worked together successfully in the field of doping research, obtaining their first WADA grant in 2011 and have published two research papers together.
The recent funding builds on the research conducted by the project partners in the past and is aimed at improving detection methods for doping. This is done by structure identification of doping metabolites and generation of reference material that can be used by doping labs around the world. This in turn can result in the retraction of medals won under unfair conditions even many years after the sports event, as happened in early 2017 in the case of the gold medal the Jamaican team won in the 4x100m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Tianjin University was founded in 1895 and is the first modern university in China. Free University Berlin is a leading research institution and one of the German universities successful in all three funding lines in the federal and state Excellence Initiative, and Federazione Medico Sportiva Italiana (FMSI) is the medical federation of the National Olympic Committee of Italy.
