Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman will take over as the chairman of the board of directors for the Kansas Bioscience Authority(KBA) after the group’s annual meeting Tuesday in Olathe.

The KBA  was established in 2004 by the state legislature to help grow the bioscience sector into a pillar of the Kansas economy.

The Kansas Bioscience Park is a 92-acre development in Manhattan, within the KC Animal Health Corridor which is home to one-third of total sales in the $19 billion global animal health market.