School Annual Research Meeting - Call for Abstracts

Open to all investigators and researchers up to and including Lecturers or equivalent, in the Medical School and local Trusts. All areas are encouraged from basic to clinical, including translational and commercially funded research.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the School's Departmental Executives and the Research Meeting Working Group. 16 abstracts will be selected for oral presentation, remaining abatracts will be invited as poster presenations and summarised in the meeting's abstract book.

At the Research Meeting oral presentations and posters will be judged by an external and internal judge. Prizes will be awarded for the best oral and poster presentations.

Submission of Abstract:

Please complete the abstract form (see downloads) and submit it to school-research-day@sheffield.ac.uk.

• Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Submissions over this limit will not be considered
• All sections of the abstract form should be completed
• Only one abstract may be submitted per first author
• The format should be TUOS Blake, single line space with 10pt font

For inclusion in the meeting's abstract book your abstract is recommended to be subdivided into the following sections:

• Rationale and hypothesis
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusion

Abstracts must be received no later than 17:00 on Monday 11th March 2013 for consideration by Departmental Executives and the Research Meeting Working Group.

You will be informed, by email, the week commencing 7th May whether your abstract is invited for an oral or poster presentation.

To preserve confidentiality, all participants will agree to non-disclosure of research not in the public domain.