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The headquarters of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) is located at Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of India's premier national research institutions in the fields of animal health, Veterinary Science and livestock research.

IVRI was established on 9 December 1889 at Pune as the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory. It was shifted to Mukteswar in 1893 to facilitate safer research on infectious animal diseases.

Later, the Izatnagar, Bareilly campus was established in 1913, initially for the large-scale production of sera and vaccines. Over time, this campus expanded and became the Headquarters of the Institute.

IVRI presently functions under the administrative control of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Its major activities include developing vaccines and diagnostics for the diagnosis, prevention and control of animal diseases, livestock-production research, Veterinary Education and technology transfer.