National Institute of Animal Biotechnology


The National Institute of Animal Biotechnology is an Indian autonomous research establishment of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology. The NIAB is being set up in Hyderabad, under the leadership of Prof. Pallu Reddanna, The state of the art Animal Biotechnology and Transgenics institute is housed in the Aryabhata Block of the sprawling University of Hyderabad in Gachibowli.
The primary mandate of NIAB is towards the development of sustainability and globally competitive livestock for public and industry through innovative and cutting edge technology. There will emphasis on showing excellence in production of globally competitive livestock products, pharmaceuticals, nutritional products and other biologicals related to animal health care.

Academics and research

The main focus of NIAB will be to nurture the bio-entrepreneurship in the animal biotechnology field and to perform hard core translational research involving livestock and beneficial to mankind. There will be research laboratories of various disciplines e.g. Genomics, Nutrition enrichment, transgenic technology, infectious diseases and Reproductive biotechnology.
NIAB will conduct teaching and research programs of M.Sc. and Ph.D. to train young scientists. Dr. Subeer S. Majumdar took charge as new director since 1 August 2016.