Founded in 1903, the SEBM is a not-for-profit scientific society formed to promote investigation in the biomedical sciences by encouraging and facilitating interchange of scientific information among disciplines. The Society publishes the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine (http://ebm.rsmjournals.com/) and has had a longstanding focus on fostering the career development of clinician-scientists and trainees.

Professor Gaskins, Professor of Immunobiology, Departments of Animal Sciences and Pathobiology, Division of Nutritional Sciences, and IGB faculty member of the Host-Microbe Systems and Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering research themes, has been active in the SEBM since joining as a graduate student in 1988. Professor Gaskins will serve one year as President-elect beginning in July 2012, two years as President and a final year as Past-Presdent.