{"id":63839,"date":"2019-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/25\/sen-hilgers-tours-unmc\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:27:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:27:53","slug":"sen-hilgers-tours-unmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/25\/sen-hilgers-tours-unmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Hilgers tours UNMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>State Sen. Mike Hilgers, who represents Nebraska Legislative District 21, toured UNMC in December, visiting the iEXCEL Visualization Hub and the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit before meeting with Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard a lot about the great work that UNMC&#8217;s doing, and I know that UNMC is on the cutting edge of medical resource and innovation,&#8221; Sen. 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