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When one of the University of Utah’s (U of U’s) AirMed helicopters take off on an emergency call, there is now a small cooler onboard containing their latest means of saving lives — blood.
Karl Voelkerding, MD, FCAP, retired from his position as medical director of genomics and bioinformatics at ARUP on July 1, 2020. Karl Voelkerding, MD, FCAP, once imagined practicing medicine as a primary care physician in a rural setting. Instead, Voelkerding would become one the world’s leading experts in NGS.
ARUP implemented numerous safety protocols when the pandemic began. Now, as cases of COVID-19 surge, the company is facing new challenges in preventing the spread of the virus among its employees.
ARUP Laboratories’ Tracy George, MD, an internationally recognized expert on mast cell disorders, was recently appointed president of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology (ISLH).
Noriko Kusukawa, PhD, retired July 2 from her position as ARUP Laboratories vice president of innovation and strategic investments after 20 years with the company.
When hospitals began postponing elective surgeries, directors of pathology training programs scrambled to adapt so that residents and fellows could still receive the instruction they needed.
Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD, and Noriko Kusukawa, PhD, who is Wittwer’s wife, are retiring from ARUP Laboratories to move to Maine, where they are building a home with a fully equipped molecular laboratory.
Just 1% of residents in four Utah counties have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, a prevalence rate below that of many other communities in the U.S., according to preliminary results of the Utah HERO project.
Lauren Pearson, DO, MPH, is the new CLIA laboratory director for ARUP at University of Utah Health and at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
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ARUP invites medical professionals and others to participate in a free webinar that features lab industry leaders discussing how COVID-19-related changes may permanently affect the industry.
ARUP Laboratories and technology company Techcyte published a study in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology on their AI-augmented ova-and-parasite detection tool.
ARUP is collaborating with the UDOH Public Health Laboratory and Ginkgo Bioworks to study the genetics of the COVID-19 virus in Utah and analyze how the molecular makeup of the virus is evolving.
