Call for Abstract for Danish Cancer Research Day 2024 open now: It provides unique contacts, insights, and opportunities

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.

Watch the video here to experience the atmosphere from the poster session in 2023.

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Additionally, during the selection phase, the assessment committee will identify seven exceptional young researchers who will be awarded the "Exceptional Young Scientist Abstract" prize. This award also grants them the opportunity to present their research on the main stage.

Go for it!
And indeed, the opportunity to stand on the main stage and present your research to over 500 interdisciplinary colleagues at the Danish Cancer Research Days is something both Mike Bogetofte Barnkob and Randi Tobberup highlights as truly unique. They were both among the selected group of researchers whose abstracts made it all the way to the main stage.

  • You will be well-prepared before standing on the stage. As one of the seven presenters, you will participate in a communication course, where you will learn about presentation techniques, which are otherwise hard to master. For me, this was an incredibly rewarding experience, shares Mike Bogetofte Barnkob.

Randi Topperup, who stood on the stage four years earlier, agrees.

  • Especially as a young researcher, it’s important to spread your message. It’s a tremendous opportunity to make your mark on the research scene, essentially to brand yourself, thereby gaining a lager network and becoming part of a broader research community. Once you are on the main stage, it opens up much greater curiosity, more support, and ultimately, it’s also beneficial for the patients: Others need to know about your work if it’s to be implemented!

In summary, there is a strong recommendation from both researchers to anyone considering submitting an abstract to the Danish Cancer Research Days 2024:

  • Go for it! The Danish scene can be intimidation, as we can’t hide here. However, you can really gain a lot by making your mark here, concludes Randi Topperup.

Call for Abstract is now open and will remain so until April 17. For more information about the formalities and other details, please click here.

Registration for the Danish Cancer Research Days 2024 opens on May 1st. Stay updated by visiting www.dccc.dk.