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6 Jul 2011

GSK Signs Agreement to Fight against Doping in Sport

GlaxoSmithKline signed a long-term agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency to help detect emerging performance-enhance drugs in sport.

GlaxoSmithKline has signed a long-term agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency to help detect emerging performance-enhance drugs in sport.

 

Under the agreement, the agency will have access to products that could be used as performance-enhancing drugs in the early stages of their development, allowing it to pre-emptively develop tests to detect them.

 

Scientists will analyse new drugs for stimulatory or performance enhancing effects and flag them, with data being delivered to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

 

Similar partnerships have proven beneficial in the past, such as when Amgen helped drug testers develop a detection method for Aranesp, leading to three ath

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