![CIBC Directors Jiantao Guo, Robert Powers and Jean-Jack Riethoven pose with the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscope in Hamilton Hall. Support for Nebraska’s Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication has been renewed for five more years, as the center continues to position the university as a national leader in the critical area of biomedical research.
CIBC was created in 2016 as a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE. A nearly $10.7 million Phase 2 grant will fund the center through 2026.
The center is focused on investigating cellular level miscommunications that contribute to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and chronic liver disease. It fosters a systems approach, combining the research expertise of chemists, biochemists, engineers and bioinformaticists and connects researchers developing new molecular probes and analytical techniques with those unraveling molecular mechanisms of diseases. December 9, 2021. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/211209_CIBC_017.jpg)
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![Alex Vecchio, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. December 13, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181213_Vecchio_067.jpg)
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![Alex Vecchio, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. December 13, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181213_Vecchio_019.jpg)
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![Bob Powers lab in Hamilton Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 5, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181105_Powers_207.jpg)
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![Bob Powers lab in Hamilton Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 5, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181105_Powers_164.jpg)
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![Bob Powers lab in Hamilton Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 5, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181105_Powers_107.jpg)
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![Bob Powers lab in Hamilton Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 5, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181105_Powers_026.jpg)
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![David Lillyman talks with Rebecca Wach in the Chase Hall lab. Rebecca Wachs lab in Chase Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 2, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181102_Wachs_203.jpg)
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![Fei San Lee, graduate research assistant, Rebecca Wachs lab in Chase Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 2, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181102_Wachs_152.jpg)
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![David Lillyman uses a microscope to examine a sample as Fei San Lee works in the background of the lab in Chase Hall. The Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication (NCIBC). November 2, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/181102_Wachs_129.jpg)
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