Call for Abstracts

Deadline for Abstracts: October 15, 2007

REVIEW CRITERIA AND SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS
Oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts in the following areas:

• Mechanical and Material
• Properties of Biologic Scaffolds
• Effect of Processing upon Biologic Scaffolds
• The Host Immune Response to Biologic Scaffolds
• Composition of Biologic Scaffolds
• Degradation/Remodeling of Biologic Scaffolds
• Clinical Applications of Biologic Scaffolds, Including:
  • Orthopedic
  • Urologic
  • Dermatologic
  • General Surgery
  • Cardiovascular
  • Gastrointestinal

Abstracts will be reviewed and evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Contribution and relevance to the field of regenerative medicine
• Quality of scientific content of research
• Previous presentation or publication of the subject matter
• Adherence to required format
• Human clinical applications will be given preference over pre-clinical animal studies

ABSTRACT CONTENT (maximum 300 words)
Content should be organized as follows:

• Statement of purpose
• Methods, materials and analytical procedures
• Summary of the results in sufficient detail to support conclusions
• Conclusions
• References to published literature
  

Abstracts can be sent by email to biologics_symposium@upmc.edu (Word or Adobe file format preferred)

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