National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research
| Established | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Research type | Public |
| Budget | ₹338.58 crore (US$40 million) |
Field of research | Animal Biotechnology |
| Director | Suresh Pothani (I/C) |
| Address | Turkapally |
| Location | Hyderabad, Telangana, India, India 500078 17°40′02″N 78°36′50″E / 17.6673335°N 78.6139701°E |
| Campus | Turkapally |
Operating agency | ICMR |
| Website | www |
The National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research is an Indian Biomedical research facility, and vivarium under the Indian Council of Medical Research. The new 33rd flagship institute of ICMR was founded in 2015, at Genome Valley in Hyderabad, India. The center is a state of the art Animal house and Animal sciences facility located near Turkapally, Shamirpet spread over 102 acres of land.
The institute proposes to breed specific pathogen free large and small animals such as mice, rats, hamsters, rabbit, guinea pigs, mini pigs, canines, swine, equines, horses, sheep, and goats. Various species of non-human primates such as rhesus, bonnet monkey, cynomolgus monkey, pig tail monkey, owl monkey and squirrel monkey among others needed for research purpose. By tenth year of its functioning, the institute proposes to be self sustainable. The project was conceived way back in 2001. It got delayed due to financial and technical reasons. However, it got impetus in 2015.