People: Phytobiotics appoints alkaloid research manager

Dr Andratsch will work on scientific topics central to the business, bringing them to the network of international colleagues and experts as well as presenting the results at seminars and in publications.

A key task will be to set up a global alkaloid competence centre, in which scientific experts and the development team of Phytobiotics will cooperate on new product ideas as well as on comprehensive feed and health concepts. All parties shall benefit from the latest scientific findings concerning relevant substances through the network. Additionally the results of several current research projects and field trials shall be available more quickly and be up for discussion. This will be supported by an internal digital forum, in which a closed user group can post and comment on articles, communicating more efficiently than before.

Dr Andratsch has studied at the Natural Scientific Faculty of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he obtained his PhD in microbiology. He then worked in the Department of Physiology and Medicinal Physics of the Medical University of Innsbruck as a microbiologist and molecular biologist, on pain research.

Phytobiotics is an international research, development and sales company of feed additives for livestock and companion animals.