Prof. Dr Wilhelm Schänzer

// followed a first degree in sports and chemistry with a doctorate from the Institute of Biochemistry at German Sport University Cologne, completing his habilitation there in 1995

// He was appointed Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the Institute of Biochemistry and its WADA-accredited doping control lab at German Sport University Cologne in 1997

// His key areas of research focus involve the clarification of steroid metabolism and the identification of new long-term metabolites; improving analytical techniques for autologous doping-relevant substances such as erythropoietin (EPO), testosterone and related prohormones; and clarifying the structural properties of new ­designer substances