Organization:Evandro Chagas Institute
The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas.[citation needed]
History
In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside.[1] The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas.[citation needed]
In 1938 this commission became the Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte, or Northern Institution for Experimental Pathology (IPEN), with a mission to study leishmaniasis and other regional diseases. In 1940 Evandro Chagas died in a plane crash. To acknowledge his work as a scientist, the government changed the name of the former IPEN into the Evandro Chagas Institute.[2]
Research
The IEC organized local volunteers to participate in the iPrEx study, which was a clinical trial testing the efficacy of a drug used as a pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV infection.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Benchimol, Jaime Larry. "Leishmaniases of the New World from a historical and global perspective, from the 1930s to the 1960s" (in en). História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 27: 95–122. doi:10.1590/s0104-59702020000300006. ISSN 0104-5970. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-59702020000900095&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en.
- ↑ "History". About IEC. Evandro Chagas Institute. http://www.iec.pa.gov.br/en/iechistory.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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