Press Releases

Harry R. Hill, MD, has been honored by the creation of the Harry R. Hill Presidential Endowed Chair in the University of Utah Department of Pathology, where he was a professor for 47 years before his retirement from the U and ARUP Laboratories on October 1, 2021.

AirMed carries O-negative blood and AB plasma on each flight. Approximately two patients per week receive blood products on the way to the hospital. This blood is from individuals who donated through ARUP Blood Services.

ARUP Consultative Services helps clients make sound testing decisions to ensure they can control health system costs without sacrificing or delaying critical patient diagnostic testing results. From left are Director of Consultative Services Sandy Richman, Senior Healthcare Consultant Ben Chacon, former Technical Operations Director Martha Bale, and Andrew Fletcher, MD, medical director of Consultative Services.

The additional COVID-19 Lab that ARUP has reconstructed to help meet renewed demand performs automated COVID-19 testing by nucleic acid amplification on Roche instrumentation.

ARUP’s dedicated employees, including Brook Berger, a lab supervisor, make a difference in the lives of patients every day. A workplace culture that prioritizes patient care is among the strengths that landed ARUP on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers by State for 2021.

An ARUP employee reviews the result of a test to detect the presence of ova or parasites in a specimen. ARUP and Techcyte collaborated in 2019 to produce the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled detection tool, which helps laboratorians quickly screen out negative results so they can spend more time analyzing slides that show positive results.

ARUP is using Deep Bio’s artificial intelligence-based software in research to evaluate how use of the software may aid in detection and classification of prostate cancer cells, such as the cells pictured here.

A donor collection specialist at the ARUP Blood Services Donor Center in Sandy bandages a donor’s arm after she has finished donating blood. ARUP is seeking donations of O-positive and O-negative blood to help address a critical shortage.

President and Chief Medical Officer Tracy George, MD, worked with ARUP’s PharmaDX and Clinical Trials group to create the central pathology review offering used in clinical trials for AYVAKIT. The new precision therapy for advanced systemic mastocytosis recently earned approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.