David Millar was handed a two-year ban and stripped of his world time trial title by the British cycling federation for taking the banned performance enhancer EPO.
In addition, Mariem Alaoui Selsouli of Morocco was disqualified before the final for testing positive for Erythropoietin.
He was disqualified and banned for two years for being positive for Erythropoietin (EPO).
He created a number of doping substances and methods, with a combination of testosterone, growth hormone and EPO being his most successful.
A report illustrating that two dogs had tested positive for the banned substance EPO was not made public by the board, contrary to standard practice.
The latter was overturned because he tested positive for the banned performance enhancing drug EPO.
During the 1990s, Santuccione worked with Conconi the man that is said to have introduced Erythropoietin or EPO to the sport of cycling.
It's true that he refused to 'load the cannon' (the pretty expression used by those who take EPO) these past years, it's true that Christophe Bassons doesn't belong to the family of cheats and the corrupted.
In 2008 she was dropped from the Romanian Olympic team after testing positive for EPO.
In out of competition control testing, on July 23, 2008, Sella was found to test positive for CERA, the third generation EPO according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Rijkaert was active in cycling when EPO was being introduced to the professional peloton by doctors such as Francesco Conconi and his former assistant Michele Ferrari.
She tested positive for EPO in March 2008 and was banned for two years by the International Association of Athletics Federations in June 2008.
Erythropoietin injection, under the brand name of Erykine, for anemia due to critical illness like chemotherapy, was introduced in Aug 2005 and Interferon α2b, under the brand name of Intalfa, was launched in April 2007.
On July 18, 2012 it was announced that Gabrovski had tested positive for EPO at that year's Presidential Tour of Turkey and that he could face a ban and the loss of his title.
He won the bronze medal in the steeplechase at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but was later stripped of the medal due to his giving a positive doping test for EPO at the Spanish Championships in July.
Few days before the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Tito was among the five Brazilian athletes who failed the competition drug test for a banned substance recombinant EPO.
Varis attended the 30 km event, but was later disqualified for taking EPO, an endurance-enhancing drug, and served a two-year suspension as a result.
She was removed from the Olympic squad prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, as she failed a doping test for Erythropoietin (EPO) in May.
In August 2009 Hunter-Galvan admitted taking the banned drug EPO three times, after failing a drug test on March 23.
She repeated as the continental champion in 2009, but was stripped of the title and banned for two years after she failed a drug test for the banned substance Erythropoietin (EPO).
Though she finished second on the course of the 2004 Ironman Triathlon World Championship, Badmann is considered the winner of the race due to the disqualification of the initial winner, Germany's Nina Kraft, after Kraft admitted to using the banned performance enhancer EPO.
In 2001 she shared the $1 million jackpot of the IAAF Golden League and in the same year tested positive for EPO which drew protests from her fellow competitors after she was allowed to compete in the World Athletics Championships.
He declared that he had repeatedly and consistently used doping products, including EPO, since the beginning of his professional career.
On July 18, 2012, it was announced that she failed a doping test on June 12 of the same year and that her A sample was consistent with the use of EPO.
The 2009 women's winner, Shitaye Gemechu, was disqualified after testing positive for the banned blood booster EPO (making her the first Ethiopian runner to be banned for abusing that substance).
She was banned for two years in 2009 after failing a test for Erythropoietin (EPO) at a race in Luxembourg.
However, Millar's admission to using the illegal drug EPO and consequent expulsion from the Great Britain squad for the 2004 Summer Olympics meant that Dangerfield was called up into the Olympic squad to race the time trial.
On February 13, 2009 IBU announced Akhatova and teammates Ekaterina Iourieva and Dmitry Yaroshenko, tested positive for EPO during the World Cup in Östersund.
Anemia of chronic disease as it is now understood is to at least some degree separate from the anemia seen in renal failure in which anemia results from poor production of erythropoietin, or the anemia caused by some drugs (like AZT, used to treat HIV infection) that have the side effect of inhibiting erythropoiesis.
Betapoietin is the trade name of erythropoietin beta made by CinnaGen and Zahravi, a hormone treatment for anaemia and sometimes used in chemotherapy
HIF-1α causes the production of vascular endothelial growth factor, platelet derived growth factor B, erythropoietin and transforming growth factor alpha, which act to stimulate growth of cells within the tumour.
During the IAAF World Championships Olga Yegorova, who had shown positive for the blood-boosting agent erythropoietin in tests conducted by a Paris lab.
Moreno was due to compete in the Women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing on 10 August, but did not start having been tested positive for EPO.
To support the Terry Fox Laboratory which he founded in 1981, Dr. Allen Eaves sold urinary erythropoietin and tissue culture reagents to researchers around the world.
The expression of this gene can be induced by a subset of cytokines, including IL2, IL3 erythropoietin (EPO), GM-CSF, and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ).