University of Oklahoma health doctoral student earns prestigious National Cancer Institute grant
Grant and Award Announcement
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Nov-2025 19:11 ET (7-Nov-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)
OKLAHOMA CITY – University of Oklahoma Health Campus Ph.D. candidate Alex Arreola has earned a prestigious National Cancer Institute grant – one of only 15 awarded nationwide this year. He is the first trainee from OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center to receive the honor, which will support his doctoral and postdoctoral training in experimental oncology and pathology.
In a study designed to test “opt-in” versus “opt-out” nudging, it turned out that what really mattered was convenience and keeping patients’ condition top of mind
Researchers led by Noah Cowan at Johns Hopkins University have secured NIH funding to probe how animals alternate between "explore" (sensing) and "exploit" (task-oriented) behaviors in uncertain environments, using the weakly electric glass knifefish as a model. The team includes researchers from four universities who will integrate their expertise in neuroscience, math, engineering, and machine learning to build on 2023 findings in Nature Machine Intelligence that revealed the explore/exploit pattern across species from amoebas to humans. The project aims to decode decision triggers, with implications for robotics and medicine.