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Noriko Kusukawa, PhD and Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD

July 1, 2020

Inventor Whose Innovations Continue to Produce Faster Test Results Retires from ARUP, the U

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.

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June 29, 2020

Preliminary Utah HERO Project Results Show Low COVID-19 Prevalence in 4 Utah Counties

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

June 24, 2020

ARUP Announces New Lab Director at University of Utah Health and Huntsman Cancer Institute

Lauren Pearson, DO, MPH, is the new CLIA laboratory director for ARUP at University of Utah Health and at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

SALT LAKE CITY — ARUP Laboratories has named Lauren Pearson, DO, MPH, as the new CLIA* laboratory director for ARUP at University of Utah (U of U) Health and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. She will continue her role as laboratory director of U of U South Jordan and

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June 15, 2020

Laboratory Leaders Discuss ‘New Normal’ for Their Industry in Free ARUP Webinar

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.

June 11, 2020

AI-Augmented Tool Advances Parasitology into a New Era

ARUP Laboratories and technology company Techcyte published a study in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology on their AI-augmented ova-and-parasite detection tool.

David Hillyard, MD, medical director of ARUP’s Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory, and Kelly Oakeson, PhD, Utah Public Health Laboratory chief scientist of bioinformatics and next generation sequencing

June 10, 2020

ARUP and the UDOH Study the Genetics of COVID-19 to Understand How the Virus Has Spread in Utah

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.

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