In 1971, Peter Perlmann and Eva Engvall at Stockholm University in Sweden, and Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen in the Netherlands independently published papers that synthesized this knowledge into methods to perform EIA/ELISA.
En 1971, Peter Perlmann e Eva Engvall na Universidade de Estocolmo, Suecia, e Anton Schuurs e Bauke van Weemen nos Países Baixos publicaron artigos independentemente nos que sintetizaban este coñecemento nos métodos para realizar o EIA/ELISA.