It is connected to the Faculty of Medicine but has its own board and independent finances.
Many scientific methods are used in basic research and services, for example pathology, microbiology, immunology, parasitology, biochemistry and molecular biology.
The Rockefeller Foundation provided financial support to build and equip the Institute at Keldur but its original role was to respond to an epidemic in sheep, the Maedi Visna Virus, that resulted from contact with Karakul sheep that had been imported into the country in 1933.
The official date for the opening of The Institute at Keldur is November 15, 1948.
The primary function of the institute is first and foremost to research veterinary diseases.