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IDeA Programs in Our Network

Resources in Our Region

These research centers are funded through IDeA programs, including the Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence and the Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence.

Boys Town National Research Hospital

Center for Perception and Communication in Children
This center is working to be the national leader for research on speech, language, hearing, and cognitive development in children with communication disorders.

North Dakota State University

Center for Protease Research
The center has broad-based research programs to provide fundamental information on how proteases, key biological players, impact several diseases.
Center for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer
Focused on the cutting-edge of fundamental research to develop early detection and therapeutic protocols for pancreatic cancer, the center supports research of junior investigators.
Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience
The center is devoted to increasing our understanding of the ways that information is processed by the brain.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rural Drug Addiction Research Center
This center facilitates collaboration between basic and health scientists to address the etiology, assessment, prevention and treatment of substance use and misuse.
Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases
This center is fostering innovative approaches to combating major health threats to our nation, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communications
The center is focused on developing research strengths directed toward understanding metabolic pathway shifts in complex diseases and developing novel biomolecular sensing strategies to diagnose, stage, and gauge the effectiveness of therapies for these disorders.
Redox Biology Center
This interdisciplinary entity involves researchers from UNL and UNMC. The center works to buttress and expand the existing strengths in redox biology in Nebraska by mentoring junior faculty, recruiting new faculty with complementary research interests and strategically enhancing biomedical research structure.

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Nebraska Center for Molecular Target Discovery and Development
This center works to establish and expand physical and intellectual resources at UNMC and throughout the University of Nebraska system, in order to catalyze the identification, validation and development of novel targets and potential therapies for clinically important diseases.
Nebraska INBRE Program
This program is focused on creating a biomedical research infrastructure that provides research opportunities for undergraduate students and serves as a pipeline for those students to continue into graduate research.
Nebraska Pediatric Clinical Trial Unit
Acting as a central home for pediatric clinical research across Nebraska, this unit works with the pediatricians and pediatric specialists at the UNMC and Children’s Hospital & Medical Center to reach Nebraska's rural and underserved communities and to help to fill the gap in pediatric clinical trials.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Development & Aging Center
This center is focused on advancing translational and human neuroscience across the region and the world, and enhancing the ability of current and future generations of local scientists to successfully compete for extramural funding, publish high-impact work and rise to the forefront of the field.

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Center for Research in Human Movement Variability
The center is dedicated to bringing scientists and established clinical investigators together to look at a variety of motor-related disorders in the neuromuscular system. The center's scientists are researching optimal approaches for therapies on the restoration of variability and complexity of movement that could be applied across a range of diseases.

University of North Dakota

North Dakota INBRE
The network serves North Dakota public universities and tribal colleges to build biomedical research capacity.
Bioinformatics Genomics Core
The core offers data analysis services for both large and small biological data sets.
Center for Host-pathogen interactions
Researchers are studying host-pathogen interactions to explore how disease-causing microbes or viruses sustain themselves within host organisms on a molecular, cellular, organismal or population level.

University of South Dakota

Center for Pediatric Research
This center, hosted at Sanford Research, fosters an environment for innovative pediatric research laboratories and contributes to enhancing children’s health research in South Dakota and across the Upper Midwest.
Center for Cancer Biology Research
This center at Sanford Research fosters collaboration among researchers working to reduce the burden of cancer in South Dakota and across the Upper Midwest by translating basic discoveries into clinical trials for human cancer patients.
South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network
The INBRE network offers resources for strengthening the biomedical research infrastructure in South Dakota.