Roslin Institute

The Roslin Institute

Established	1993
Director	Professor Bruce Whitelaw
Location	Midlothian , EH25 9RG , Scotland, UK 55°51′56″N 03°11′54″W / 55.86556°N 3.19833°W / 55.86556; -3.19833
Campus	Easter Bush
Affiliations	University of Edinburgh, BBSRC
Mascot	Dolly the Sheep
Website	www.ed.ac.uk/roslin

The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

It is best known for creating Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell.