Mission and governance

Mission

To reduce harm in the research use only chemical space through education, verifiable credentialing, material integrity standards, and documentation practice - with public safety as the governing interest.

Independence commitments

• No revenue from the sale, brokerage, or referral of research materials.
• No supplier holds a board seat, veto, or editorial control over curriculum, testing results, or database entries.
• Published conflict-of-interest disclosures for every board member, examiner, and curriculum author.
• Certification decisions are made on examination results alone and are never influenced by who referred a candidate.
• Testing results, once the laboratory program exists, are published whether or not they are commercially convenient.

Intended governance

A nonprofit board with a majority of seats held by people without commercial interest in the RUO market, including designated seats for:

• An analytical or peptide chemist
• A licensed clinician
• A regulatory attorney
• A research-ethics or IRB representative
• A public-member seat with no industry affiliation

Committees for curriculum and examination, standards and testing, ethics and credentialing appeals, and safety reporting.

Analytical testing program

A public-safety testing function is the Foundation's clearest path to measurable harm reduction: identity confirmation by mass spectrometry, purity by HPLC, endotoxin and bioburden screening, and published anonymized results by lot. The intent is an accredited partner laboratory operating to documented methods, with a defined chain of custody and a public results archive.

Evidence agenda

Structured, consistently documented observations from independent research are not a substitute for clinical trials - but they can identify signals worth formal study and can support an eventual investigational pathway. The Foundation's long-term aim is a standardized documentation protocol and observation registry designed with research-ethics input from the start, so that any data collected could withstand scientific and regulatory scrutiny.

The Foundation makes no claim that any material described on this site is safe or effective, and it does not represent that any regulatory approval is pending. See the legal and risk page.

Get involved

The Foundation is seeking board candidates, curriculum reviewers, examination item writers, and laboratory partners.