Press Releases

ARUP Senior Vice President and People-First Leader Retires after 43 Years

Nancy Andes, senior vice president of marketing, retired on August 3, 2020. She has been with ARUP for 43 years and helped grow ARUP into a well-respected, nationally recognized reference laboratory.

Even in the early days of her career as a medical technologist, Nancy Andes, senior vice president of marketing at ARUP, had a propensity to wander, seeking opportunities to interact with individuals in other departments to learn more

Newly Published Research from ARUP and the U of U Explores Performance of Test Used to Diagnose Invasive Fungal Infections

Kimberly Hanson, MD, ARUP section chief of clinical microbiology and an associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, led a study of serum (1-3)- β-D-glucan tests that was published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

ARUP Announces the Retirements of Two Pioneering Laboratory Scientists

SALT LAKE CITY – ARUP Laboratories today announced the retirements of two pioneering scientists whose work is responsible for important advancements in laboratory medicine.

Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD, medical director of Immunologic Flow Cytometry, is retiring after 32 years at ARUP and the University of Utah School of Medicine, while Karl Voelkerding, MD, medical director of genomics and bioinformatics, is

ARUP Wellness Center Wins Two Awards

Wellness staff members Curtis Bell, Shelby Firouzi, Natalie Sargent, Raven Berman, and Kelly Gibbons stand with new awards from Utah Worksite Wellness Conference.

In May, the ARUP Wellness Center won the Platinum Healthy Worksite Award and the Innovation Award for Physical Wellbeing at the Utah Worksite Wellness Conference.

New Technology Diagnoses Pneumonia Caused by Previously Undetected Pathogens

Metagenomics test identified pathogens missed by conventional lab tests in 44 percent of immunocompromised children treated for respiratory infection

Chronic Kidney Disease and Improving Diagnoses: ARUP Teams Up to Identify Patients at Risk

Thirty million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but only 3.6 million know they’ve got the disease. With few early symptoms, people may not realize they have the disease until their kidney function is significantly depleted. That can be fatal without dialysis or a kidney transplant.

One in three American adults is at risk for chronic kidney disease as a result of hypertension or diabetes. CKD