The Virology Laboratory was established as one of the laboratories of the Biotechnology Branch in 2014 under the guidance of the Dean of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Abdul Hussein Al-Faisal, and the presidency of the Biotechnology Branch for the purpose of adding a scientific laboratory specialized in viruses to other specialized scientific laboratories in the branch in particular and the Institute in general in order to complete the research of graduate students for the master’s and doctoral stages, as well as conducting various scientific research in the field of molecular biology of pathological viruses.