Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility

The LARIF allows users to benefit from a wide range of expertise in farm animal production, health and welfare - including infectious diseases and zoonoses, vaccines, genetics and genome editing, imaging, radiology, medicine, surgery and critical care.

The Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility (LARIF) includes the Wellcome Trust-funded Critical Care Laboratory for Large Animals currently at Dryden Farm, which supports the study of large animal biology with all the resources of a human hospital. It also offers advanced imaging capabilities to advance neurobiology, anatomy and physiology in large animals, as well as to provide capacity to study infectious diseases and evaluate control strategies.

This new facility incorporates resources for the Centre of Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) and the Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation Centre (AGRI-EPI). The LARIF supports the 'One health, One medicine' vision of the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, including by harnessing biomedical models of important human disorders.

Use of animals in research

For more information about the use of animals in research at the University of Edinburgh, please visit https://www.ed.ac.uk/research/animal-research

About Us

The Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility (LARIF) has received funding from the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) (thanks to the support of Innovate UK) and the Wellcome Trust.

Facilities

We have a wide range of facilities available to facilitate large animal imaging and research.

Case Studies

A selection of case studies covering a range of areas.

Contact Us

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