Robin Coombs

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He was born in London and studied veterinary medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1943 he commenced work on a doctorate at Cambridge University, where he continued to work until 1988^[1]. Already before obtaining his doctorate in 1947 he had described the antiglobulin test that would bear his name.

He became a professor and researcher at the Department of Pathology of University of Cambridge, and a founder of its Division of Immunology.

He received honorary doctoral degress by the University of Guelph, Canada, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom (1965), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

He was married to Anne Blomfield, his first graduate student. They had a son and a daughter^[1].

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His first discovery was the test now referred to as the Coombs test, which according to the legend he first devised while travelling on the train^[1], and developed and published together with Dr Arthur Mourant and Dr Rob Race^[2]. It has formed the base of a large number of laboratory investigations in the fields of hematology and immunology^[3].

Together with Professor Philip George Howthern Gell, he developed a classification of immune mechanisms of tissue injury, now known as the "Gell-Coombs classification", comprising four types of reactions^[4].

Together with W.E. Parish and A.F. Wells he put forward an explanation of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as an anaphylactic reaction to dairy proteins^[5]

1. ↑ ^{a b et c} Pincock S. Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs. Lancet 2006;367:1234. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68528-0.
2. ↑ Coombs RRA, Mourant AE, Race RR. Detection of weak and "incomplete" Rh agglutinins: a new test. Lancet 1945;246:15-6. DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(45)90806-3.
3. ↑ Coombs RR. Historical note: past, present and future of the antiglobulin test. Vox Sang 1998;74:67-73. PMID 9501403.
4. ↑ Gell PGH, Coombs RRA. Clinical Aspects of Immunology. London: Blackwell, 1963.
5. ↑ Coombs RRA, Parish WE, Walls AF. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Could a healthy infant succumb to inhalation-anaphylaxis during sleep leading to cot death?. Cambridge Publications Ltd, 2000. (ISBN 0954008103).