Holly Gates-Mayer, assistant director and biosafety officer for Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), is the new president-elect of the , a trade association dedicated to promoting biosafety and serving the needs of biosafety professionals.
As a biosafety officer at the university, Gates-Mayer is responsible for the management of the Biosafety program, which focuses on the safe and compliant use of recombinant and synthetic nucleic acids, human and animal cell lines, and infectious agents in research.
Gates-Mayer will assume leadership at FRaBSA this summer. She views this new leadership position as an extension of what she does at the university and hopes to focus on bringing more attention to science students who may consider biosafety as a career option. Read to find out more.