The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (abbreviated SEBM) is a nonprofit scientific society dedicated to promoting research in the

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Founding

The SEBM was founded in 1903, after Samuel J. Meltzer proposed founding a society dedicated to experimental biology and medicine. Meltzer then teamed up with

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to invite eight

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scientists to a conference at Lusk's home, where they discussed the possibility of founding a biomedical society. At the conference, the attendees uniformly agreed to appoint a committee for a permanent society.

Journal

The SEBM's official journal is '' Experimental Biology and Medicine'', published by

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. It was founded in 1904 as the ''Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine'', and obtained its current name in 2001.

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