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Rutgers researcher, a leader in fight against COVID-19, dead at 51
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Rutgers researcher, Dr. Andrew Brooks, who led the development of the first approved coronavirus saliva-based test for home use, died unexpectedly on Jan. 23, 2021. He was Chief Operating Officer at RUCDR Infinite Biologics. (Photo: Nick Romanenko)
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A statement released last week by Rutgers University, announced the unexpected death of research professor, Andrew Brooks.
Brooks, who died on Saturday, January 23, at the age of 51, led the development of the first approved coronavirus saliva-based test for home use, the statement read.
The rapid response test received FDA emergency approval last spring, and since March, more than four million of them have been performed, Rutgers revealed, earning recognition for Brooks and his lab’s pioneering work, in The New York Times
A research professor at Rutgers University, Andrew Brooks, who led the development of the first FDA-approved Covid-19 saliva test, died suddenly on January 23, according to a Monday, February 1 statement by the university.
Brooks, 51, was the chief operating officer and director of technology development at RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the lab that developed the saliva test used for covid-19 diagnosis. The test, which was approved in April 2020, was authorized for use at-home a month later.
According to Janet Green, who is sister to Brooks, the cause of his death was a heart attack. She called him “an intellect, an amazing scientist, an amazing father … an amazing family man.”
Andrew Brooks, Designer of COVID-19 Saliva Test, Dies at 51
The Rutgers University researcher created the first FDA-authorized spit test, which has since been used by millions of people.
Feb 2, 2021
ABOVE: Andrew Brooks photographed in April 2020 at the RUCDR Infinite Biologics soon after the Rutgers COVID-19 saliva test received emergency approval from the FDA.
NICK ROMANENKO
Andrew Brooks, a molecular neuroscientist who developed the first COVID-19 saliva test to receive emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration, died on January 23 of a heart attack. He was 51.
In the early days of the pandemic, when testing resources such as swabs and reagents were scarce, Brooks’s saliva test offered a fast and reliable way to screen large numbers of people. The test, which he designed while head of the Rutgers-affiliated biorepository RUCDR Infinite Biologics, protected essential workers from exposure to the virus as they collected samples by doing away with the
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