 Woodward was involved in the discovery of the first genetic marker for cystic fibrosis.In 1991, Woodward was one of the BYU professors who suggested students be banned from driving cars to campus.In 1994, Woodward announced to have extracted and typed DNA from an 80-million-year-old Cretaceous dinosaur bone, but S. Blair Hedges and other ancient DNA experts  demonstrated that Woodward had really sequenced human DNA.