How to Start

Collaborations with ARUP: How to Start and What to Expect

Connect with an ARUP faculty member

We have more than 90 University of Utah faculty members affiliated with ARUP, the majority based in the Department of Pathology, with additional faculty from the Department of Pediatrics. In order to to have a meaningful discussion of your project, the first step is to connecte you with an ARUP faculty member who shares common academic diagnostic interests with you.

ARUP faculty members

Discuss the project and present a technical seminar at ARUP

This can be coordinated by your ARUP faculty contact or by Adam Barker, PhD (adam.barker@aruplab.com). You will get feedback from a broader audience within ARUP as to how your work may align with ARUP, as well a sense of what work remains for the technology—or biomarker, as applicable—to be applied in a clinical diagnostic laboratory setting.

Joint studies

If there is a fit between your work and ARUP, we may move on to designing a collaborative study with you.

The study may include:

  • A clinical study to validate the analytical and/or medical performance of a test method, biomarker, or algorithm
  • A proof-of-principle study of a device or method
  • An assay designed and validated that could be implemented as a test at ARUP, and possibly at other diagnostic laboratories

ARUP Resources Available

ARUP is an excellent resource for University of Utah faculty members seeking potential application for their work in the field of human diagnostics.

  • Customized test development and validation services
  • Large specimen collection (blood, urine, and tissue) with test data
  • Industry networks—ongoing projects and relationships with leading consortiums and companies in the diagnostic industry
  • More than two decades of experience in successfully supporting clinical trials
  • Laboratory testing for rare diseases
  • Pharmaceutical clinical development, including FDA submission of companion and complementary diagnostics
  • Strong client network, including many of the nation’s university teaching hospitals and children’s hospitals
  • Expertise in:
    • Anatomic pathology
    • Clinical pathology
    • Bioinformatics
    • Disease and mutation databases
    • Flow cytometry
    • High-resolution DNA melting
    • High-throughput gene sequencing
    • Integrated test results reporting
    • Laboratory automation and robotics
    • Mass spectrometry
    • Molecular diagnostics
    • Newborn screening
    • Next generation sequencing
    • Real-time PCR
    • Translational research