The poster session at the Danish Cancer Research Days 2024 will, like the previous year, take place as moderated poster-walks with discussion groups. Photo: DKD2023, Jesper Balleby
01-03-2024
Call for abstracts for Danish Cancer Research Days 2024 is now open. Responding to this call is highly advantageous, as presenting your research at Danish Cancer Research Days provides you with unique national and interdisciplinary contacts, insights, and opportunities, assess two researchers who have previously submitted their abstracts.
Initially, Mike Bogetofte Barnkob was motivated to submit an abstract to the Danish Cancer Research Days 2023 by his desire to network and share his research.
- We were at a point where we wanted to talk with other Danish cancer researchers about our research, to get feedback. And I must say, we did receive it! I have no doubt that I got contacts and ‘publicity’ that I wouldn’t otherwise, explains the researcher, who is a physician and postdoc at Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital and the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford.
He receives support from Randi Tobberup, who is the lead clinical dietitian at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Aalborg University Hospital, and as PhD student in 2019, submitted an abstract to the Danish Cancer Research Days.
- Presenting your research in a national forum with a interdisciplinary focus is a unique experience, she remarks. As a young researcher, being able to face challenges in such a setting is invaluable and contribute to personal growth. It also fosters richer discussions and initiates meaningful professional conversations, she adds.
- Overall, the Danish Cancer Research Days is a unique conference due to its interdisciplinary and national character. We need to understand each other and encompass the whole picture. We all have our areas of expertise, which is beneficial, but it can also lead to a certain narrow-mindedness. Therefor, dialogue with fellow professionals is essential not only to understand how others think and how you can collaborate with them but ultimately to ensure better treatment for patients.
From abstract to the main scene
Right now, you have the opportunity to present your research at the largest cancer conference in the country, which will take place on August 29-30 in Odense.
Among all submitted abstracts, a multidisciplinary assessment committee selects researchers who are invited to convert their abstract into a physical poster, which will then be presented at the conference in this year’s poster session. Here more than 100 researchers will have the opportunity to discuss their research during the ‘poster walks’, and the ‘Best Poster Award’ will be awarded to a researcher who manages to communicate their research at an exceptionally high level, both visually an orally.
