Larry Bowers joined the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in September 2000 as the Senior Managing Director of Technical and Information Resources.  As USADA's Chief Science Officer, he is responsible for leading the research efforts into prohibited substances, including detection, and oversees USADA's drug testing program and the development of resources for technical and educational anti-doping information for Olympic and elite athletes in the United States as well as the development of an anti-doping educational program for America's youth in sport.

Bowers serves as a consultant with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Medical Devices Advisory Committee and was deputy director of the Athletic Drug Testing Laboratory for the 1996 Olympic Games. He has published more than 100 papers on drug testing and chemistry and is frequently invited to present at conferences and scientific meetings.

Prior to his appointment with USADA, Bowers spent eight years as the Director of Athletic Drug Testing and Toxicology Laboratory at Indiana University. He was also a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as well as in the Department of Chemistry at the Prdue University School of Science.  Previously, he was a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Bowers earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College and completed his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Georgia.