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The Moredun Research Institute is internationally
recognised for its work on infectious diseases of sheep and other ruminants. |
The aims of the Institute are:
- To carry out innovative basic and strategic multidisciplinary
research on diseases which undermine biological efficiency, impair
animal welfare or threaten public health.
- To develop strategies for improved control and prevention
of disease, thereby furthering animal and human wellbeing and encouraging
sustainable agriculture.
- To contribute new knowledge to biological
science, comparative medicine, environmental protection and public
health.
- To maintain specialist diagnostic and disease surveillance
services to facilitate epidemiological investigations, and early awareness
of emerging problems.