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Advanced Practice Clinical Laboratory Training Center at ARUP Secures $3 Million in Federal Funding

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ARUP Laboratories and the University of Utah's Division of Medical Laboratory Sciences have secured $3 million in federal funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration to build a new Advanced Practice Clinical Laboratory Training Center.

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  • SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ARUP Laboratories and the University of Utah's Division of Medical Laboratory Sciences have secured $3 million in federal funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration to build a new Advanced Practice Clinical Laboratory Training Center.
  • The center will bolster educational opportunities for students in medical laboratory sciences in Utah and beyond and help address a critical need for highly trained laboratory professionals nationwide.
  • It will fund a first-of-its-kind collaboration between ARUP and the U, made possible by Rep. Chris Stewart's help in securing the appropriation.
  • The program has also secured a grant for a laboratory information system to be used in the training center.

Altitude Lab Announces First Cohort of Startups Close Over $50M in Seed Capital

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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SALT LAKE CITY, March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altitude Lab today announced its first cohort of startups raised $54M in seed funding while incubating at Altitude Lab. Founded by Recursion® and the University of Utah's PIVOT Center, the incubator fills the critical role of finding, supporting and incubating early-stage health care startups in Utah. Its first cohort of seven startups was enrolled in Winter 2020; six of them closed seed financing within 18 months of joining the program.

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  • SALT LAKE CITY, March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altitude Lab today announced its first cohort of startups raised $54M in seed funding while incubating at Altitude Lab.
  • Its first cohort of seven startups was enrolled in Winter 2020; six of them closed seed financing within 18 months of joining the program.
  • Altitude Lab's investor coalition members, a partnered network of leading health care venture capitalists, mentored and advised incubated startups and funded one-third of the cohort.
  • "Together with the University, we developed Altitude Lab to centralize the resources and community that many startups in Utah lacked previously.