The Instituto Bioclon S.A. de C.V. (Bioclon Institute) was formed in 1990 to research and develop F(ab’)2 antivenoms. On May 6, 2015 they received approval from the FDA to commercialize Anavip becoming their second drug approved by the FDA after ANASCORP. Both are commercialized in the US by Rare Disease Therapeutics, Inc. The company is performing clinical trials to get approval for a third drug, ANALATRO, designed to treat

black widow spider ''Latrodectus'' is a broadly distributed genus of spiders with several species that are commonly known as the true widows. This group is composed of those often loosely called black widow spiders, brown widow spiders, and similar spiders. Howeve ...

envenomation.

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The Instituto Bioclon is located in Mexico City, Mexico and has a Certificación Internacional de Buenas Prácticas de Manufactura (International Certificate for Good Manufacturing Practices) which was granted to Bioclon by the , (INVIMA) (National Food and Drug Monitoring Institute), of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia, as well as by

COFEPRIS The Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (in Spanish, Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios, Cofepris) is a regulatory body of the Mexican government. It is a decentralized organ of (and supervised by) t ...

, in Mexico.

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* Anavip – timber rattlesnake antivenom *

Coralmyn Coralmyn, also called Polyvalent Anti-coral Fabotherapic, is a polyclonal antivenom F(ab')2 used to treat venomous bites in mammals from the eastern coral snake and the Texas coral snake ''Micrurus tener'', commonly known as the Texas coral ...

–

coral snake Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be divided into two distinct groups, the Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes. There are 16 species of Old World coral snakes, in three genera (''Calliophis'', '' Hemibungarus' ...

antivenom * Antivipmyn –

pit viper The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers,Mehrtens JM (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . crotaline snakes (from grc, κρόταλον ''krotalon'' castanet), or pit adders, are a subfa ...

antivenom * Antivipmyn TRI – Central and South American snakes * Antivipmyn Africa – African snakes * Alacramyn –

scorpion Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always end ...

antivenom * Reclusmyn –

brown recluse The brown recluse (''Loxosceles reclusa''), Sicariidae (formerly placed in a family "Loxoscelidae") is a recluse spider with Necrosis, necrotic venom. Similar to those of other recluse spiders, their bites sometimes require medical attention. T ...

antivenom * Aracmyn – black widow antivenom The Bioclon Institute is the only Mexican company that has obtained an "orphan drug" status from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States for its products.

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Laboratorios Silanes

Rare Disease Therapeuthics, Inc
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