Rosa Ventura wins the 2003 Manfred Donike award for scientific excellence for her work developing analytical procedures with decision limits used in antidoping control
Agilent Technologies Europe has announced that the 2003 Manfred Donike award for scientific excellence in doping control has been awarded to Rosa Ventura of the Institut Municipal D'Investigacio Medica (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain.
Agilent sponsors this award, which is presented annually to a scientist whose scientific contributions represent a distinguished development in the field of sports medicine, and who best exemplifies the spirit and scientific leadership of the late Professor Donike.
The award, which consists of the Donike Medal and a cash award of €3500, was presented at the 21st Annual Manfred Donike Doping Control Workshop in Cologne, Germany, on 20 March, 2003.
The award was presented by Marie Donike, wife of the late professor, and Agilent's Stuart Cram.
"The development of new analytical technologies and methods is important to providing a level playing field in global sports competition," said Cram, worldwide business development manager for Agilent's life science and chemical analysis business.
"We are proud to honour the work of Dr Ventura. Her contributions will bring data quality for the enforcement of antidoping standards to a new level, impacting athletic competition around the world." Ventura is the quality control manager at the IOC-accredited doping control laboratory, IMIM, in Barcelona.
She is also assistant professor of chemistry at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
Ventura's studies focus on estimating the uncertainties of analytical results, using information from internal quality control, inter-comparison exercises, and reference materials.
Her approach allows the determination of the uncertainty in analytical procedures with decision limits used in antidoping control, and is compliant with the requirements of the ISO 17025 standards. This increases the dependability and defensibility of the athlete drug-testing programmes of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all sports federations.
Agilent has been supplying drug testing equipment to world championship competitions around the globe since the 1972 Olympics when drug testing was first required.
Agilent presented the first Donike Award in 1997.
