The Veterinary College, Bangalore was inaugurated on 25th July, 1958, by the then Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri.B.D.Jatti, however, the present Veterinary College building located in the 75 acres plot was inaugurated by his Highness the Maharaja Shri Jaya Chamarajendra Wodeyar, the Governor of Karnataka, on 6th January 1962. The college was initially affiliated to Mysore University, Mysore and in 1965 it became the constituent college of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
During 2004, the college has become a part of Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU) and the college celebrated its Golden Jubilee from September 2007 to August 2008. The main focus of this institution is teaching, research and extension. The aim of the institution is to make veterinary education responsive to the growing needs of the society in general and aspirations of the livestock farmers in particular.
The Veterinary college, Bengaluru has so far produced more than 3225 veterinary graduates and more than 1000 post graduates working across the globe in different capacities. The institution is equipped with skilled and qualified manpower and infrastructure.
The Department of Veterinary Biochemistry was instituted in 1994 with the inception of first VCI syllabus with only an undergraduate laboratory as its infrastructure. However, the department now has well equipped separate under-graduate, clinical biochemistry and biotechnology laboratory. The MVSc and PhD programmes in Veterinary Biochemistry were started from the academic year 2010-11 and 2013-14, respectively. As on today nine students have completed MVSc and one student has completed PhD. The areas of research are focused around male and female reproductive biochemistry and nutritional biochemistry. The department has been successful in identifying for the presence of sperm maturation proteins in bull testis and reversible endocrine disruptive effects of phytoestrogens on spermatogenesis in rats for the first time. Besides cell free seminal - mRNA expression as a valuable tool to evaluate bull semen, proteomic and genomic studies associated with qualitative traits in chicken meat have also been envisaged.
The Department of Veterinary Biochemistry eagerly looks forward for the participation of all fellow colleagues in the ensuing annual convention 2017 for their inputs and discussions in different aspects of biochemistry and biotechnology.