Finding Her Passion: Cancer Research
Growing up in South Dakota, DeLaney Anderson had no desire to go to Utah for college. But when she visited BYU campus, she realized it was where God wanted her to be.
October 2023

Biology professors Matthew Bailey and Sam Payne led the largest-ever study on how cancer spreads and affects proteins in the body. Payne says the 25 students working in his lab on this project for the past several years have found that relieving suffering through cancer research fulfills BYU's mission to learn and serve.
Growing up in South Dakota, DeLaney Anderson had no desire to go to Utah for college. But when she visited BYU campus, she realized it was where God wanted her to be.
Findings from BYU researchers about using tears to diagnose diseases were recently published in Clinical Proteomics.
Recent nursing graduate Shawen Bueckers registered to be a bone marrow donor. Two years later she got an unexpected call that she was a match for a one-year-old.