Noel received his B.S. in 2004 from James Madison University, with a dual concentration in Engineering and Biotechnology. Following undergrad, he was awarded the Molecular Targets and Drug Discovery Fellowship, a joint program sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and the NIH, where he earned aM.S. in Biotechnology. During this time, he trained at the NCI in the lab of Dr. Phil Dennis studying PI3Ksignaling in lung cancer. Noel received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in 2011 from UC San Diego in the lab of Dr. Alexandra Newton, where he studied mechanisms responsible for Akt activation in cancer. His postdoctoral research was conducted as a NCI Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Center in the lab of Dr. Wafik El-Deiry. There, he gained experience in translational medicine studying novel mechanisms of HIF-1 regulation. In 2015, Noel joined the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor. He is also a member of the UA cancer center and is funded by the American Cancer Society and Department of Defense PCRP.