May 9, 2023

Purdue University's animal disease lab gets more funding from Indiana, US

A new two-year appropriations budget adopted by the General Assembly of Indiana, the United States, on April 28 contains good news for the Purdue University Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (ADDL), the university's College of Veterinary Medicine said.

A key priority for the laboratory was to make the case for increased state funding to support its mission of helping Indiana veterinarians, animal health officials, livestock producers and animal owners in protecting the health of the animal population by providing prompt, accurate and reliable diagnoses of animal diseases, including those that may affect the human population.

The ADDL is an individual line item in the state budget. The latest two-year state budget increases the laboratory's annual appropriation to US$5 million per fiscal year, which represents an increase of US$1,288,439 per fiscal year. The ADDL also was included in the budget for Purdue capital projects and capital appropriations, to the tune of US$5 million for laboratory upgrades.

Other specific line items in the state budget related to Purdue that received increases in annual appropriations include County Agricultural Extension Educators (funding raised to US$8 million per fiscal year) and Agricultural Research and Extension – Crossroads (funding raised to US$9 million per fiscal year). 

Overall, the state budget provides a 4% increase in operating funding for Purdue for fiscal year 2024 and a 6% increase for FY 2025 – the most significant infusion of new dollars in operating appropriations that higher education in the state has received in many years.

- Purdue University