Indian nominated member of executive board of WAADS

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.