The Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) is a foundation under public law.
A Board of Curators with decision-making authority and a Scientific Advisory Committee with an advisory function serve as governing bodies of the FBN.
It has a full-time director. At the FBN, cooperation between capable workgroups in close physical proximity working on related topics with a high degree of specialisation for the four focus topics forms the basis for the interdisciplinary and systemic research approach.