All authors must adhere to the following when submitting an abstract for ISCD Annual Meeting.

1. The research described in the abstract complies with the guiding principles for experimental procedures written in the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, and the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 1985, and refer to the policy established by your Institutional Review Board.
2. All authors (submitting and contributing) have read the Disclosure Statement (Conflict of Interest) and have made appropriate disclosures by completing and submitting the PDF Disclosure Form. These documents are attached together with the Abstract Template, downloadable below at Abstract Guideline: “Step Two”.
3. Authors of an abstract describing a study funded by an organization with a proprietary or financial interest must identify the organization and affirm that they had full access to all the data in the study. By doing so, they accept complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
4. If the manuscript associated with the abstract has appeared or will appear in print or online, on or before February 28, 2019 the abstract is not eligible for oral presentation and if accepted will be presented for Poster Presentation Only.
5. The following guidelines apply to previously presented abstracts:-
   • Abstracts presented orally or as a poster at a prior ISCD Annual Meeting may not be submitted for either poster or oral presentation.
   • Abstracts presented (poster or oral) at major U.S. national, and other national and international meetings may not be submitted for an oral presentation at the ISCD 2019 Annual Meeting and should be marked “Poster Presentation Only”.
   • If you have previously presented the material in your abstract at another meeting and aren’t sure about its eligibility for oral presentation at the ISCD 2019 Annual Meeting, please mark “Poster Presentation Only” on the submission form or contact ISCD (abstract@am2019.iscd.org) for advice before submitting the abstract.

Read the abstract guidelines below.

1. Abstract template can be downloaded at this page. Please make sure you use the template provided.
2. Abstract must be limited to ONE A4-sized page only
3. The abstract title should be 200 characters max and the abstract text should be 2,500 characters max. Font size 12, Times New Roman, single spacing and justified fields is the accepted format for abstract submission. Use the abstract template for spacing and organisation of subsections.
4. Up to 3 figures including graphs and tables, etc. are allowed in each abstract. The font size within the figures must be clearly visible and must not be less than size 10.
5. All texts and figures/tables must fit within one 2-column page, with 0.75" margin.
6. The author(s) and institution(s) must be clearly mentioned but will be blinded by the secretariat during the evaluation process.
7. If the abstract contains identifiers (e.g. name of hospital in the text body), the authors will need to underline them in order for the secretariat to omit them when it is sent for evaluation.
8. Only abstracts submitted in Microsoft Word file and not more than 2.5MB in size will be considered. Authors are responsible to make sure all the text and figures are visible and formatted correctly for reviewers.
9. There is no charge for the submission of abstracts and there is no limit to the number of abstracts an author may submit.
10. If you would need to edit your abstracts after submitting, please email to abstract@am2019.iscd.org.
11. Abstract content should consist of:-
    1. Introduction
    2. Objectives
    3. Methods
    4. Results
    5. Conclusion
    6. References

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