History of Aegis Sciences Corp - David Black's steroid testing company

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[SIZE=-1]International Herald Tribune, France [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The demand for that kind of information has business booming for Black's company, Aegis Sciences Corp, located around the corner from the Tennessee Titans' headquarters in a Nashville business park.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]It started in 1986 as a sports doping lab following a steroids scandal on the football team had Vanderbilt University wanting to test all its athletes. The toxicologist didn't want to leave town when the lab closed, so he took it private in 1990 and expanded testing for doctors tracking if patients take their pain medication, employers protecting themselves from employees using drugs, forensic work and sports.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Black estimates he has helped exonerate more than 50 athletes including Olympic sprinter Butch Reynolds in the early 1990s, and his lab tests for about 80 Division I-A universities and NASCAR. His work with the NFL ended in 1990 when then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue moved testing to a lab approved by the International Olympic Committee and named Dr. John Lombardo as the league's adviser on steroids.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Business is so good Black can't meet the demand, despite expanding into a 35,000-square foot building this summer. He has 130 employees, including 65 drug testers, running an average of 3,000 tests each week with fees ranging from as low as $30 to $3,000 per test. He said he expects business to expand by up to 50 percent next year despite the economy ...[/SIZE]


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