163 - 40 Years of Advancing Anti-Doping at the Catalonia Anti-Doping Laboratory - Rosa Ventura Alemany, PhD

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 differentiate between permitted versus prohibited administration, and the analysis of doping agents in dried blood spot (DBS) samples.