Abstract information

Instructions

The online submission system will take you step-by-step through the submission of your abstract. To get access to the abstract form, a login name and password are required. You may choose your own login name and password. We strongly advise you to write down your login name and password. Before submitting your abstract, you can access and edit your abstract as often as necessary. After submitting your abstract successfully, you will receive a confirmation of the submission by e-mail. Please note that you will no longer be able to edit your abstract once you have pressed the SUBMIT button. If corrections are still necessary, please contact the congress organizer.

Abstracts

1. The Scientific Program Committee will only accept original scientific material that has not been published before. However, abstracts presented at local, regional or national meetings may be submitted. The abstract title and text may not contain trade names. The Scientific Program Committee reserves the right to replace trade names in accepted abstracts. In clinical studies, please state whether informed consent was obtained. If off label use of drugs was involved, please state this clearly.
2. Abstracts should be submitted in English.
3. Graphs, tables/statistics and pictures should be attached as jpg pictures in the insert image module. Maximum size: 1Mb per image. You may submit only 1 image.

Required information

1. Name and complete address including a correct e-mail address of the first (presenting) author, to whom correspondence will be sent by e-mail.
2. Abstract title: please use capitals only. The title (including spaces) should not exceed 200 characters. Do not type
a full stop (.) at the end of the title and please do not use trade names.
3. Topics: select one of the 40 topics.
4. Presentation preference: select poster, oral or no preference.
5. Abstract text: no more than 500 words. You may provide your e-mail address at the end of the abstract for publication.
   • Do not use HTML codes and ‘end of lines’ as the text will automatically wrap.
   • Do not include a table in the body text of your abstract, but create a jpg picture of the table and attach it to the document following the instructions on the website. Maximum size: 1Mb per image.
   • Please adopt the following structured format:
   • Background
   • Aims
   • Methods
   • Results
   • Summary/conclusions
6. Keywords: please choose a maximum of four keywords from the list. It is no longer possible to submit your own keywords. To use the list of keywords one of the following programs should be installed: Explorer 5.0+, Safari 1.2, Mozilla 1.0 / Firefox, Opera 9 or Netscape 7.
7. Registration of co-authors: please fill out the family names, first names, institute, city, country and e-mail address of the co-authors. Do not state the main author as a co-author.
8. Graphs, tables and pictures: attach as jpg pictures. If a table or graph is created in other image creating software, save as a jpg with a density of preferably 300 but at least 150 dpi, maximum size: 1Mb. You may submit only 1 image.

How to create a jpg table in PowerPoint (max. size: 1Mb):

• Create a blank PowerPoint slide, using the predefined layout showing one big white field.
• Leave background color white.
• Set your font at: Arial 20pt, black.
  1. Set up the table using the “Insert R Table” function or the Insert Word table function. Create some more columns, to be joined later for the description of rows. Adjust the layout of the table, joining and splitting cells, using the Tables and Borders Toolbar.
  2. Please note: depending on the number of characters used per cell you will be able to create a table with a maximum of 9 columns by 12 rows.
  3. Using the handles fit your table to the size of the slide. There should be no white borders around your table.
  4. Complete the table with your data.
  5. When cells still show empty space, enlarge the font size. Never use a font size smaller than 20 pt.
  6. Make a separate slide for a table.
  7. Save as a Joint Photographics Experts Group (jpeg). (The slides will now be exported to a directory created by PowerPoint).

Language setting of your keyboard

The keyboard configuration of computers in non-Western countries may cause problems with the printing of the abstracts when special non-Western characters are used. To avoid these problems the language setting of your computer should be changed. To do this select "Start" then "Settings", then "ControlPanel" and then choosing "Keyboard." Once in this menu, set the language of your computer to English (United States) or US (International). Next, open MS Word (or the word processing software you are using) and set the font type to Arial - Western. In the preparation of your abstract, if you require certain special characters that are not available, (e.g. '±', '®', 'μ'), use the insert symbol feature (special characters). To do this, select Arial as the font (Unicoded, if possible), then select the required character, and copy and paste the symbol into the text of the abstract. If a special character is still not available, describe the character, e.g. 'alpha’. Authors who do not want to make use of the special character feature like superscript, for example “xxx2”, should put their references between brackets: (1).

Browser font preference

Before submitting your abstract, select Unicode as the preferred font. If Unicode is not available, please select Western.

Abstract review, selection and publication

1. An international panel of experts will review the abstracts. Each abstract will be reviewed by at least five different reviewers. An abstract may be selected for an oral or poster presentation, for publication only, or may be rejected.
2. The first (presenting) author will receive a confirmation of acceptance for oral presentation, poster presentation, publication only or a notice of rejection, by e-mail before APRIL 30, 2008. Oral presenters will be informed about the type and the date of the session and presentation guidelines will be provided. Poster presenters will be informed about the date of the poster session and will receive guidelines for their presentation. All accepted abstracts will be published in the abstract book. The six best abstracts will be selected for an oral presentation in the Presidential Symposium.
3. Authors of poster presentations will receive, together with their confirmation of acceptance, an official poster reply form. Without returning this signed reply form no poster board will be reserved. This policy was created in order to reduce the number of poster no-shows.

EHA Travel Grants

NEW this year: travel grant winners will also receive free EHA membership from June 2008 – December 2008.

Travel grants, consisting of e 500 and free registration, will be available for investigators with accepted abstracts. Travel grants are specially intended to support investigators early in their career. Applicants should be within 15 years of graduation or have less than 10 years post-doc experience. The Scientific Program Committee will decide, according to the scores of the abstracts, which abstract receives a grant. This will be announced to the first author before April 30, 2008. Authors wishing to be considered for a grant should tick the appropriate box at the online abstract submission site and provide, separately, a covering letter confirming the date of graduation or a copy of diploma. You can send this covering letter to the congress organizer (see page 9 for address). Several travel grants have been reserved for abstract authors from countries with lower- and lower/middleincome economies.

Please note: The deadline for travel grant applications is March 1, 2008 (in parallel with the deadline for abstract submission). Applications are only valid in combination with an abstract submission. Only complete applications will be considered.

List of abstract topics

1. Developmental hematopoiesis and stem cells
2. Stem cell transplantation - experimental and clinical
3. Microenvironment
4. Growth factors, receptors and signaling
5. Transcriptional control and epigenetics
6. Cell cycle regulation and apoptosis
7. Genomics and proteomics
8. Cytogenetics and molecular diagnostics
9. Novel therapeutics and targeted therapies
10. Drug resistance and pharmacology
11. Gene therapy
12. Cellular immunotherapy and vaccination
13. Anemia, aplastic anemia - PNH
14. Red blood cells, iron
15. Granulocytes
16. Platelets and thrombocytopenia
17. Myelodysplastic syndromes
18. Acute myeloid leukemia - biology
19. Acute myeloid leukemia - clinical
20. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia - biology
21. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia - clinical
22. Chronic myeloid leukemia - biology
23. Chronic myeloid leukemia - clinical
24. Myeloproliferative disorders - biology
25. Myeloproliferative disorders - clinical
26. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and related disorders - biology
27. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and related disorders - clinical
28. Myeloma and other monoclonal gammopathies - biology
29. Myeloma and other monoclonal gammopathies - clinical
30. Hodgkin’s lymphoma
31. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma - biology
32. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma - clinical
33. Thrombosis
34. Vascular biology
35. Bleeding disorders (congenital and acquired)
36. Transfusion medicine
37. Infectious diseases, supportive care
38. Quality of life, palliative care
39. Ethics
40. Health economics