Instituto Mackenzie

Brazilian Presbyterian educational institution in the Higienópolis district of São Paulo, whose origins go back to a school founded in 1870 by American missionaries and the Mackenzie College of 1896, and which today maintains schools, the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and further campuses at Alphaville, Campinas and Rio de Janeiro. The university teaches pharmacy, biological sciences, chemistry, biomedical and other engineering, medicine and psychology, and runs its own laboratories, teaching clinics and research centres including work in materials, biotechnology and applied chemistry.