Malia Deshotel, PhD Scientist III ARUP Laboratories Constitutional Genomics Clinical Assay Design
Dr. Deshotel is a research and development scientist at ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah. She specializes in developing and validating clinical assays for germline disease diagnostics. She has experience in a broad range of instruments for detecting germline variants including Illumina NovaSeq X, PacBio Sequel IIe, Oxford Nanopore Technologies GridION, and Bio-Rad droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). Her work also involves collaborating with medical directors and publishing unique variant analyses. In addition, she is an active member of the corporate Safety Committee, leader of the ARUP Cycling Club, and proud parent of a kindergartener.