NEW DELHI:
National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) scientific director
Alka Beotra has become a nominated member of the
World Association of Anti Doping Scientists' (WAADS) executive board.
Her tenure on the executive board of WAADS will be for a period of three years, i.e. from March 2015.
The WAADS is an organisation comprising anti doping scientists from all the WADA-accredited labs across the world.
The purpose of WAADS is to allow WADA-accredited laboratories to interact within their own group as well as to provide assistance to others to combat the issue of doping in sport.
In the six-member executive board, Beotra is the only member from Asia.