March 21, 2013
Alltech enters research partnership with Harper Adams University
Animal health and nutrition company, Alltech, has formed a research alliance with Harper Adams University (UK) on March 12.
The three-year alliance will see the steering committee, comprising of staff members from Harper Adams, working with three Alltech staff on research partnerships.
Alltech has successfully collaborated with a number of top academic institutions in the past, through 12 research alliances across the world, in order to find sustainable solutions to the key issues facing the agricultural industry. This alliance represents the one of three European connections which will advance the interest of all parties involved through educating the next generation of scientist.
"We are really excited to work with Harper Adams University. They are a well established institution with a long tradition of working in the rural sector and their vision for the future is an excellent fit with Alltech's," said Dr Jules Taylor-Pickard, Alltech's solutions deployment team manager. "This research alliance will help Alltech to bring further solutions to our markets and to solve real problems, benefitting society and the agriculture and food industries."
"Europe as a region is one of the fastest to adopt new technologies and one of the best in terms of investment in agriculture. Harper Adams University is an ideal partner for Alltech in our mission to revolutionise the agriculture industry, through novel technologies, working in synergy with animals, while remaining safe and traceable for the consumer, without harming the environment. We are very excited to see where this research alliance will take us," said Dr Karl Dawson, chief scientific officer at Alltech.
Professor Peter Mills, deputy vice-chancellor of Harper Adams Universitysaid, "Harper Adams University is delighted that a formal alliance has been put in place with Alltech and have every confidence that it will be beneficial to both parties. It is an excellent model of how universities and industry should be working together for the benefit of agriculture."
