
Department of Physiology & Developmental Biology
Brigham Young University
574 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602-5253
In 1971, President Harold B. Lee said he hoped the Eyring Science Center would become a place where students and faculty would make significant contributions to finding a cure for cancer.
When Eric Taylor was a distance runner on the Brigham Young University track team, he often wondered how exercise changed his body so that he could run faster and farther in the future. After meeting a BYU professor who was researching the same questions, Taylor decided to pursue a Ph.D. in physiology and help answer them.