A top University of Utah Health Sciences official said Tuesday the Huntsman Cancer Institute controversy in April remains a problem for the department — but leaders are pushing forward to regain the department’s national reputation.
“It‘s true there are still clouds hanging over health sciences,” said A. Lorris Betz, interim senior vice president of health sciences, at Tuesday’s U. Board of Trustees meeting. “But you need to know we have an incredibly strong leadership team.”
Those clouds will remain, Betz said, until a new memorandum of understanding governing the institute is put in place. The Huntsman family and the U.