Biobest was founded by Dr David Snodgrass in 1995 when he identified a gap in the market for a private veterinary virology laboratory. Initially Biobest operated as a specialist referral laboratory, only accepting samples via other veterinary laboratories. Quality has remained the fundamental to Biobest’s success and, over the years, we have added ISO:17025 and GMP accreditation and are also the largest VMD authorised equine stem cell centre in the UK.

In 2000 David took the bold step of setting up a second laboratory for Biobest, a high containment facility which enabled us to perform rabies testing for the newly created pet travel scheme. This was a truly transformational event in the history of Biobest as the high demand for this test over the years has allowed the business to grow and prosper, eventually becoming a ‘one stop shop’ for all veterinary laboratory requirements.

Biobest was purchased by the Origin group in 2014 which was subsequently purchased by Vet Partners in 2018. As such Biobest are now part of one of the largest veterinary groups in the UK and have multiple specialist laboratory sites in both Edinburgh and York.