Key Dates
6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances
26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date
9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date
2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours
2 July 2008
Accommodation Bookings
2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings
2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
Congress Opens
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Late Breaking Abstracts
Original abstracts of truly late breaking scientific research conducted after 10 March 2008, will be reviewed by a special panel. Abstracts will be selected for presentation based on scientific merit, timeliness and interest to TTS 2008 attendees. One late breaking abstract session will be put into the program. The deadline for late breaking abstracts will be 9 June 2008. Please note there will be A$100 submission fee for late breaking abstracts.
Scholarships
There are a variety of scholarship opportunities available - click here for more information
Notification and Publication
Abstract notification will be sent via e-mail by 6 May 2008. Everyone presenting an abstract is responsible for their own registration and travel to the meeting.
All abstracts will be published in a supplement to the Journal Transplantation. Additionally abstracts will be available online at www.transplantation2008.org by July 2008 and on the Congress CD-ROM of Abstracts.
Abstract Topics
The following is a list of abstract categories and subcategories.
| Basic Science | Bioartificial Organs and Tissue Engineering |
| Experimental Immunobiology | |
| Experimental Immunosupression | |
| Genetics and Genomics | |
| Immune Montoring and Molecular Diagnosis | |
| Tolerance – Clinical and Experimental | |
| Bone Marrow | Bone Marrow and HSC Tissue |
| Cardiothoracic | Clinical Heart |
| Clinical Lung | |
| Cornea and other Tissues | Cornea |
| Histocompatibility | Histocompatibility and Immunogention |
| Immunosupression | Clinical Immunosuppression Kidney Early |
| Clinical Immunosuppression Kidney Late | |
| Clinical Immunosuppression Liver | |
| Clinical Immunosuppression Heart/Lung | |
| Clinical Immunosuppression New agants | |
| Immunosuppression Pre-clinical agents | |
| Infection Diseases | Infectious Diseases |
| Intestine | Clinical Intestine and Multirisceral |
| Islets | Clinical Islets |
| Liver | Donor Allocations |
| Hepatocellular Cancer | |
| Liver Donation | |
| Other | |
| Outcomes | |
| Viral Hepatitis | |
| Organ Donation | Donation, Allocation and Ethics |
| Organ Preservation and Procurement | |
| Quality of Life Economics | |
| Pancreas | Clinical Pancreas |
| Pediatrics | Pediatrics Transplantation |
| Renal | ABOi and Sensitised Patients |
| BK Virus | |
| Chronic Graft Dysfunction | |
| Living Donor | |
| Long Term Complications | |
| Malignancy | |
| Pathology | |
| Rejection | |
| Surgery/Early Complications | |
| Stem Cells | Cell Transplantation – Non HSC/Islets |
| Stem Cells | |
| Surgical (other) | Composite Tissue |
| Imaging | |
| Surgical Videos | |
| Xenotransplant | Xenotransplantation |
Electronic Posters
In 2008 the XXII International Congress of the Transplantation Society will be holding oral presentations listed inside the scientific program, mini-oral presentations, electronic posters and traditional poster board presentations. Upon submission authors will have the option to submit and abstract for consideration for an oral presentation or a mini-oral presentation for which authors will be asked to prepare 3-5 powerpoint slides for a 5 minute presentation. Or authors can submit an abstract for consideration of either an electronic poster view on computer terminals throughout the Congress venue or a traditional poster board presentation or both.
Video presentation of Surgery Techniques
Opportunity exists to present video, with or with out voiceover and of up to 10 minutes duration, of surgical or related techniques used in any aspect of clinical transplantation or in surgical research models. They will be presented in dedicated sessions during the scientific program in the presence of the contributing surgeon/researcher. Each presentation will be followed by question time.
Video selection will initially be based on a submitted written description of the video content on the same abstract form used for oral and poster submission and with the same closing date. An estimated length of the video in minutes is requested in the abstract.
If the DVD has already been completed prior to abstract deadline, it can be also be forwarded by post in addition to the written abstract for review. This may influence selection by the abstract review panel. Contributors of successful abstracts will be notified at the same time as the oral and poster presenters. Those notified will be expected to forward their complete DVD by mail to the Congress office in Sydney by June 30, 2008.
Click here to download the Call for Abstracts flyer:
General enquiries
XXII International Congress of The Transplantation Society
c/o The Meeting Planners
Suite 19, Level 14 Lumley House
309 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Telephone: +61 3 9417 0888 (head office based in Melbourne)
Facsimile: +61 3 9417 0899 (head office based in Melbourne)
Email: tts2008@meetingplanners.com.au
