In April 2002, the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the School of Biology (LBM), created on March 27th, 1995 and directed by Dr. Jorge Hernández Torres, was merged with the CINBIN. This alliance gave rise to the Center for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, under the direction of Dr. Jorge Hernández Torres. Dr. Graciela Chalela lvarez’s research, outreach, and teaching functions were taken over by Professor Mariela Carreo de Arango, M.Sc., until the beginning of 2006.
In March 2006, Dr. Jorge Luis Fuentes Lorenzo joined the Center as a new professor of Microbiology and remained at the Center until November 2007, when the Microbiology Laboratory of the CINBIN was moved to the UIS Main Campus. Since then, the CINBIN reoriented its research lines, mainly towards work in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics.
However, with the involvement of new researchers, the Center has been recovering its operational capacity in all aspects of its mission, with the facilities of CINBIN as its headquarters. In April 2002, the Research Group in Industrial Biotechnology and Molecular Biology was registered in Colciencias. The group has been formed by professors, biologists, and students from the UIS, with the purpose of turning the CINBIN into a reference Center in the northeast of Colombia and, in the future, at a national level.