The project is about finding ways to detect blood doping or epo use by monitoring the total mass of haemoglobin in an athlete's blood over time.

 

In the light of recent events it raises some questions whether it was particularly helpful to have Doctor Schmid on this project who recently confessed to have had advised athletes on using PEDs. While Doctor Schmid, a founding member of the research program was in charge of the post operation puerto anti doping programm of team t-mobile it could have make sense to engage in a project like this it does not fit the picture that the program started as early as 2005 way before Operation Puerto broke loose.