Who Discovered Coombs Test?

Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs. Immunologist who invented the antiglobulin test that allows detection of anti-rhesus antibodies. Born on Jan 9, 1921, in London, UK, he died, on Jan 25, 2006, aged 85 years.

When was the Coombs test invented?

Along with his colleagues Arthur Mourant and Rob Race, Coombs conducted a series of spectacularly successfully experiments that confirmed that the method worked. They published the method and its application to various diseases in the Lancet in 1945 and the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1946.

Who is the Coombs test named after?

The presence of gamma globulin on cells can be detected by the Coombs test, named for its inventor, English immunologist Robert Coombs. Coombs serum (also called antihuman globulin) is made by immunizing rabbits with human gamma globulin.