Overview:
The NCIBC Summer Research Fellowship provides 2-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. The awardee is expected to submit a research report and present it at a NCIBC monthly member meeting within 45 days of completion of the fellowship.
Eligibility:
- Must be an undergraduate or graduate student in NCIBC-affiliated faculty lab.
- The proposed research must fall into one of NCIBC’s focus areas. Learn more about NCIBC’s focus here: (https://cms.unl.edu/cas/ncibc/about/).
Application Process:
- Submit a one-page statement single-spaced with 1-inch margins describing the proposed summer research project, expected outcomes, and any other supporting information.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letter of support from an NCIBC faculty mentor
Submission & Deadline:
Application deadline is April 1 annually. Email all required materials in a single PDF file to jguo4@unl.edu.
Application Review & Notification:
The Center Directors and members of the Internal Mentoring and Advisory Committee (IMAC) will review proposals. Applicants will receive a response to their request by April 15.
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. Please cite the grant (P20GM113126) if NCIBC funding or other NCIBC resources contribute to your publications.