2026 Experimental Biology and Medicine Conference

Welcome

The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine is happy to welcome you to San Diego for the SEBM Annual Meeting at SOT!
This year's focus in on the use of new approach methodologies (NAMs) to understand human health and disease across diverse populations.

Featured Presenters Include:

• Camilla Dos Santos, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  Understanding Molecular Mechanisms of Breast Cancer using Human Mammary Organoids

• Thaddeus Schug, PhD, NIEHS
  The Complement Animal Research In Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) Program application requirements for the NAMs Technology Development Centers funding opportunity, and a Q&A session during which NIH staff will answer questions from the audience

• James Glazier, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
  Use of digital twins to model the immune response or infectious disease process

• Ellen Shrock, PhD, University of Washington
  Antibody Immunodominance is Germline Encoded

• Weida Tong, PhD, NCTR/FDA
  From Animal to Algorithm: Assessing Drug-Induced Liver Injury with AI

• Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Metabolic Rewiring of Fibroblasts Fuels Fibrostenotic Crohn’s Disease

• Carolina González, PhD, Scripps
  Advancing Drug Repositioning with Explainable Graph Neural Networks