The Department of culture and education will allocate 4.8 billion euros in 2014 and 2015 to the new center of biomedicine and veterinary medicine of the Rof Codina Foundation.
The new facility will be unique in Galicia and it will strengthen the position of the Rof Codina University Veterinary Hospital as a centre of reference in the field of biomedicine and veterinary medicine.
Lugo, 30 December 2013 . The Minister of culture, education and universities, Jesús Vázquez Abad, this afternoon visited Hospital-Veterinary College Rof Codinan (HVU-RC) – linked to the University of Santiago de Compostela, where could learn firsthand the progress of the project of construction of a new research centre in biomedicine and veterinary medicine (CEBIOVET) of the campus of Lugo.
During his visit, the Minister stressed the importance of the new Center, which will help strengthen the position of the University Veterinary Hospital as a centre of reference in research in this area. Not in vain, he said that the new Center will have all the rules so that they can make it work in association with any company or research center, since its facilities will be carried out in accordance with the latest standards of the characteristics that must have centres in which research is conducted with animals «Conditions of quality» who currently have very few centres of this type in Europe.