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vaitukaitis in 2005 hartford , connecticut 1940 development of the home pregnancy test suffield , connecticut judith-vaitukaitis-2005 . jpg judith vaitukaitis
 judith vaitukaitis tufts university
judith vaitukaitis

judith l. vaitukaitis -lrb- born 1940 -rrb- is a reproductive neuroendocrinologist and clinical researcher who played a key role developing a biochemical assay in the early 1970s that ultimately led to the creation of the home pregnancy test .
she served for 12 years as director of the us national center for research resources -lrb- ncrr -rrb- at the us national institutes of health -lrb- nih -rrb- .
