Genesis

Laboratory Animal Information Service (LAIS) started at the Indian Cancer Research Centre, Bombay (now, Advanced Centre for Treatment Education and Research in Cancer) in 1957 with the help of UNESCO and became a unit of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in 1959. This unit for the first time undertook a survey on the conditions of laboratory animal care, breeding and experimentation in the country and considered the need for educating the biomedical fraternity on the proper care, breeding and maintenance of laboratory animals. This resulted in the initiation of a regular training course in laboratory animal sciences in 1967, and the publication of laboratory animal bulletins, which contained information on the laboratory animals breeding, maintenance and their use for experimentation in various research institutions in the country. This unit was later shifted to National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad in 1976, and was expanded to provide animal support to NIN's nutritional research and also to provide animals to other institutes within the country and it was renamed then as Laboratory Animal Information Service Centre (LAISC).