Federal Grant Award Summary

The National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences a $279,504 Project Grant (CFDA 47.070: Computer and Information Science and Engineering) effective October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2028. This CyberTraining pilot project develops and delivers a cloud-enabled, computationally rigorous training program designed to build workforce capacity in biomedical meta-research and evidence evaluation. Over 24 months, the project will train approximately 30 students across two summer cohorts in an intensive 8-week program integrating cyberinfrastructure skills with applied meta-research content, with particular focus on recruiting students from EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) states, rural institutions, and non-research-intensive universities.

The primary deliverables include practical competencies training in reproducible computational workflows using Docker, Git, GitHub, Jupyter, and RStudio; distributed data access through public application programming interfaces such as ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed; and automated validator pipelines for auditing clinical trial transparency and reporting quality. All curriculum materials, software tools, and evaluation data will be openly shared to enable other institutions to adopt the training model at no cost, thereby extending the program's impact beyond the directly trained student cohorts. By delivering training through cloud-accessible infrastructure, the project provides students at under-resourced institutions equivalent computational capabilities to those available at well-funded research universities.