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Application deadline: April 15, 2026
Overview
The NCIBC Summer Research Fellowship provides two months of summer salary support to undergraduate and graduate students conducting research in NCIBC-affiliated faculty lab.
Award Information
The funding will be issued to the sponsoring faculty member, who will be responsible for all personnel actions and documentation. Awardees are required to submit a written research report and present their work at an NCIBC monthly member meeting during the fall semester following completion of the fellowship.
Eligibility
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) conducting research in the laboratory of an NCIBC-affiliated faculty member.
- Propose a research project that aligns with one or more of NCIBC’s scientific focus areas (see: https://ncibc.unl.edu/about/).
- Have a sponsoring faculty mentor who is an active member of NCIBC.
- Active membership is defined as regular participation in NCIBC activities, including but not limited to monthly member meetings, the annual symposium, and other Center-sponsored events.
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received NCIBC Summer Fellowship funding.
Application Process
Applicants must submit the following materials:
- A one-page, single-spaced statement with 1-inch margins describing the proposed summer research project, expected outcomes, and any other relevant information.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letter of support from an NCIBC faculty mentor
Submission & Deadline
Application deadline is April 15. Email all required materials as a single PDF file to jguo4@unl.edu. Please include “NCIBC Summer Fellowship Application” in the subject line.
Application Review & Notification
The Center Directors and members of the Internal Mentoring and Advisory Committee (IMAC) will review proposals.
Acknowledgment of Support
Any publications, presentations, posters, or other scholarly products that result from NCIBC funding or the use of NCIBC resources must acknowledge support from the National Institutes of Health through the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) grant P20GM113126.
More about NCIBC
NCIBC is funded by a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant (P20GM113126) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to build institutional capacity and infrastructure for basic biomedical research. NCIBC is designed to be a natural mixing chamber to integrate the research activities of chemists, biochemists, engineers, and bioinformaticians to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how cells communicate and to mechanistically define metabolic and regulatory pathways relevant to disease development and progression. NCIBC’s long-term goal is to foster the development of collaborative research teams with broad disciplinary representation to interrogate complex disease pathways, especially by connecting researchers who are developing new molecular probes and analytical and informatics technologies with those unravelling molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.