The Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing is located in Parel in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
The Institute conducts research in the improvement of the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine, surveillance and microbiological analysis of typhoid, prevalence of drug resistance in bacteria, studies of infections occurring in AIDS patients, and the development of newer chemotherapeutic agents to combat microbial and zoonotic infections.
In October 1896, an epidemic of bubonic plague struck Bombay (now Mumbai) and the government asked Haffkine to help.
In three months of persistent work (one of his assistants experienced a nervous breakdown, two others quit), a form of vaccine was ready for human trials.
[9] The governor's residence moved to its present site on Malabar Hill in 1883 and the property was used by the Bombay Presidency Recorders.