Enrique Eduardo Ecker, US/Caribbean immunologist and microbiologist (Willemstad, Curaçao 26 January 1887 – Cleveland, Ohio 05 March 1966)

Developed new methods

Developed famous Rees-Ecker method for platelet counting and Rees-Ecker fluid

With H.M. Rees. Improved method for counting blood platelets. JAMA 80:621-2, 1923.

With L. Pillemer. An inexpensive method for the dehydration and preservation of complement and other biological materials. Am. J. Public Health 28(10):1231-2, 1938.

With B. Likover. A micro method for the determination of the albumin-globulin ratio in guinea pig serum. J. Lab. Clin. Med. 32:1500-2, 1947.

With C.W. Hiatt. A method for the quantitative measurement of complement-fixation. Amer.J. Clin. Pathol. 19:141-51, 1949.

With K. Sassano. A rapid method for preparing antigens from normal heart muscle.

Studies in leukemia. IV. Improved electrometric method. Lab. Invest. 6(2):118-24, 1957

With C.W. Hiatt & L.M. Barr. A method of determining the distribution of erythrocyte fragility in human blood. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 19(3):259-64, 1949

A new Constant in human blood plasma. Anales R. Acad. Nac. Med. 68(1):167-86, 1951