Lousiana State University

American public land grant university at Baton Rouge in Louisiana, founded in 1860 and the flagship of the LSU system, which also takes in health sciences centres at New Orleans and Shreveport. Teaches chemistry, biological sciences, biochemistry, veterinary medicine and nutrition and food sciences on the Baton Rouge campus, runs its own veterinary teaching hospital and research farms, and carries out research in medicinal and analytical chemistry, veterinary pharmacology and biotechnology with its own laboratories.