Animal Research Institute, Yeerongpilly

Animal Research Institute, Yeerongpilly
Animal research complex at Yeerongpilly, 1946
Location	Yeerongpilly Queensland Australia
Coordinates	27°31′29″S 153°00′41″E / 27.52472°S 153.01139°E / -27.52472; 153.01139Coordinates: 27°31′29″S 153°00′41″E / 27.52472°S 153.01139°E / -27.52472; 153.01139
Founded	Stock Experiment Station 1909
Place Category	Education, Research, Scientific Facility
Place Type	Research station
Vacated	2011
Site location

The Animal Research Institute, Yeerongpilly (ARI) was a government science complex at Yeerongpilly, Queensland, Australia, serving the agricultural sector of Queensland. A number of the Animal Research Institute Buildings are heritage-listed, added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 2008.

The site was proposed and established by Sydney Dodd in 1909 as the Stock Experiment Station for the then Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock. The land had been occupied in the 19th century by the King family, Parr Smith – headmaster of the Yeronga State School, and A. A. McDiarmid. With Dodd began the site's long-standing contribution to the cattle industry in the protection against tick fever (babesiosis, anaplasmosis). In 1910 the Government Bacteriologist Charles Joseph Pound, inaugural director of the , took charge of the station for the next 22 years.

From 1932 to 1953 the complex was known as the Animal Health Station. In this period the site's various scientific disciplines became specialised roles, and the Department's biochemical and toxicological laboratory sections were also transferred there. The CSIRO, known then as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and the University of Queensland's Veterinary School first occupied parts of the site during this era. In World War II the United States Army utilised the Veterinary School building, with a laboratory and malaria school formed as part of the 3rd Medical Laboratory in 1942.