Floratech Adds Market Development Analyst

CHANDLER, Ariz.—Floratech, a manufacturer of botanical emollients and specialty particles, appointed Chad Dubbelde to the newly created position of market development analyst. Previously, Dubbelde served as a research associate at two San Diego biotechnology firms and led the screening efforts for a new class of antibiotics and helped develop assays based on bacterial essential gene targets. Dubbelde has also held positions at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and served as a member of the DNA sequencing team responsible, in part, for the Human Genome Project at the Washington University School of Medicine’s Genome Sequencing Center.