Gene Doping Symposium - Stockholm 2005

More than 50 participants from 15 countries attended WADA’s second Symposium on gene doping in December 2005, including geneticists and other biomedical scientists, ethicists, public policy experts, representatives of the International Olympic Committee and the broad international sports community.

Click on the hyperlinked names to see presentations or presentation abstracts. Note that the opinions expressed within the abstracts and presentations are those of the authors/presenters alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of WADA.

 

Presentations

Sunday, 4 December 2005

  1. New trends in anti-doping (A. Ljungqvist)   Presentation / Abstract
  2. Up-date on current clinical gene transfer studies  - therapeutic effects, adverse events (T. Friedmann)    Presentation / Abstract
  3. Human training and skeletal muscle gene activation (C.J. Sundberg)    
           Presentation / Abstract
  4. Vector and transgene vector detection (H. Haisma)    
                 Presentation / Abstract
  5. Animal gene transfer models potentially relevant to athletic performance

 

Monday, 5 December 2005

  1. WADA program and perspectives on gene doping detection (O. Rabin)
           Presentation / Abstract
  2. Surrogate markers for transgene expression
  • Global gene expression analysis (F. Labrie, J. Roberts)
           
            J. Roberts   Presentation / Abstract
            F. Labrie   Presentation / Abstract
  • Proteomic analysis (J. Yates, C.C. King)   Presentation / Abstract
  1. Interim reports from recipients of WADA research grants (G. Goldspink, T. Friedmann, C. Nohammer, J. Roberts)
  1. Potential for non-invasive imaging (K.Zinn)   Presentation / Abstract
  2. Policy and ethical aspects (T. Murray, A. Miah, E. Juengst, A. Schneider,
    M.G. Hansson)