Vanessa Agon

Dr. Vanessa Agon is the Director of the Australian Sports Drug Testing Laboratory (ASDTL) and the Sydney Athlete Passport Management Unit (APMU) within the National Measurement Institute, bringing over 20 years of expertise in anti-doping science. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of New South Wales, an Honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney in collaboration with the Heart Research Institute.

Vanessa began her career at ASDTL in 2005 as a research scientist, focusing on peptide hormones and immunoassays. In 2011, she was appointed Senior Scientist and went on to lead the peptide hormone group for more than a decade. In January 2020, she became the haematological lab-based manager of the newly approved Sydney APMU, and in late 2023 she was appointed Director of both ASDTL and the APMU.