Announcement of Breakthrough

Anti-Doping Research Develops New Equine Test for the Powerful Blood-boosting Drug CERA

(Los Angeles, November 24, 2009) – With generous funding from the Equine Drug Research Institute (EDRI) and the equine-racing community, Anti-Doping Research, Inc. (ADR), one of the world’s leading scientific organizations battling performance-enhancing drugs in sports, has developed a new equine test for the powerful blood-boosting drug CERA.  The announcement comes in a peer-reviewed article published in the recently released August issue of the quarterly scientific journal, Comparative Exercise Physiology.

Like the test developed not long ago for human competitors, the new test for horses successfully detects CERA in plasma after the drug has been administered intravenously.

“We are proud of this development and happy to announce it,” says Don Catlin, M.D., founder and chief executive of ADR and one of the authors of the report.  “If implemented, this new test will close a major testing loophole and help eliminate the use of one of today’s most powerful doping products in equine sports.”

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Anti-Doping Research, Inc. (ADR) is a leading scientific nonprofit organization founded in 2005 by anti-doping pioneer Don Catlin, M.D. and colleagues as a dynamic new paradigm dedicated to creating novel solutions to modern-day doping issues in sports and competition. It focuses on research, analytical services, education, program development and collaboration.

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