Evandro Chagas Institute
The Evandro Chagas Institute is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas.
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. 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.In 1938 this commission became the Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte, or Northern Institution for Experimental Pathology, 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.