Instituto Butantan

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Instituto Butantan is a Brazilian biomedical research center affiliated to the São Paulo State Secretary of Health. It is located near the campus of the University of São Paulo, in the city of the same name.

The Institute was founded by the Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist Vital Brazil in 1901, according to Pasteur Institute paradigm, i.e., by combining in the same institution medical research, the transfer of the results to society as health products, and self-financing through this later activity. Its foundation was a reaction to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the city of Santos. It is internationally renowned for its research on venomous animals. It is also a state-supported producer of vaccines against many infectious diseases, such as rabies, hepatitis, botulism, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and tuberculosis, as well as polyvalent and monovalent antivenoms against the bites of snakes, lizards, bees, scorpions and spiders (which, historically were first developed in the beginning of the 20th century by Dr. Vital Brazil and his coworkers).

A fire in 2010 destroyed the collection facility, which maintained one of the largest collections of venomous animals in the world, comprising ca. 80,000 snake specimens, and an estimated 450,000 spiders and scorpions.

The name of the institute comes from "Butantã" , a district in the west of the "município de São Paulo". "Butantã" itself is a tupi word meaning "crushed soil".

Source: Wikipedia