The lab animal facility of Saveetha University is known as the Biomedical Research Unit and Laboratory Animal Centre and abbreviated as BURLAC was commissioned in January, 2006 in the extensive grounds of the University.  This facility has provision for the maintenance of large and small laboratory animals. The ground floor has the quarantine area at one end and also maintenance of large animal namely sheep. After the quarantine period the large experimental animals are shifted to the animal holding rooms where they are kept as ‘clean’ stock for further experimental use. The facility is housed spaciously occupying about 10,000 sq. feet area comprising of the ground floor and first floor the ground floor has been designed for the care and use of large animals for research and the first floor has been designed to house small laboratory animals like mice, rat, rabbit, guinea pigs.

On the first floor there is a well-equipped laboratory for basic and advanced research for the gain of the post graduate students and research scholars. Also included in the first floor is a very spacious hall for lectures and
experimental demonstrations with future scope for a close circuit TV facility and it is ideal for conducting workshops and hands on training programmes. The facility includes a operation theatre exclusively for small and large animal surgeries with post operative care. The facilities with its large animal handling areas can easily undertake special
research projects from the pharma industry as well.