Abstracts

Important Information on Abstract Submission

The Oxford Abstracts platform will be used for the submission of both scientific abstracts for presentation at the EFI Conference and abstracts for the DGI-MTL-Workshop, organized by DGI (DGI-MTL-Fortbildung). Abstracts for the DGI-MTL-Fortbildung may be submitted in German.

When submitting your abstract, please make sure to select the appropriate presentation format:

• EFI Oral/Poster – for abstracts to be considered for oral or poster presentation at the EFI Conference.
• EFI Poster only – for abstracts intended for poster presentation at the EFI Conference.
• DGI-MTL-Fortbildung – for abstracts submitted for the DGI-MTL-Fortbildung.

Please ensure that you select the correct presentation format, as this determines which event your abstract will be considered for.

Requirements

When submitting your abstract please follow these Abstract submission instructions.

• All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference
• The abstract must
  • be written in scientific English
  • have a maximum length of 2000 characters (including spaces)
  • have a short informative title containing the major keywords (max 200 characters including spaces). The title should not contain abbreviations
  • be a single paragraph without any heading
• Minimize the use of abbreviations, and do not cite references in the abstract
• The author's institutional affiliations must not be included in the abstract to ensure anonymity of the process
• Submitters will be asked to choose either „EFI Oral/Poster“ or „EFI Poster only“ for their abstract. The use of Oral/Poster is encouraged to maximise the abstracts being considered for the oral sessions
• (only for EFI abstracts) All accepted abstracts will be published in the HLA journal, and available online. By submitting your abstract, you consent to give EFI permission to publish it.

The following submission categories are available. Submitters are asked to select one primary category that best aligns with their abstract content and, if applicable, a secondary category.

• Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence
• Cancer Immunogenetics
• Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• HLA antigen processing and presentation
• Immunogenetics and Infections
• Immunological Tolerance
• Immunotherapy & Gene Therapy
• MHC Evolution, Anthropology & Population Genetics
• New Technologies, Various
• NK cells and KIR
• Reproductive Immunity
• Solid Organ Transplantation
• Other

Review

All the abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the EFI Scientific committee. The authors will receive notification of the decision. Authors selected for presentation (oral communication or poster) will be required to register for the conference.

Committees

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

Prof. Dr. med. Katharina Fleischhauer (Institute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany)

Prof. Dr. med. Christian Seidl (Institut für Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhämatologie, DRK-Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg – Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Scientific Committee

• Luca Vago - Italy (Chair)
• John Trowsdale - UK
• Alicia Sanchez-Mazas - Switzerland
• Raphael Carapito - France
• Pietro Crivello - Germany
• Eric Spierings - The Netherlands 
• Gonca Karahan - The Netherlands
• Natasja de Groot - The Netherlands
• Jonathan Lucas - UK
• Stefan Schaub - Switzerland

For the review of the DGI-MTL-Fortbildung abstracts:

• Dr. sc. hum. Andreas Heinold (Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Germany)
• Achim Jung (Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Mainz, Germany)

Contact

All questions regarding submissions modalities should be emailed to pietro.crivello@uk-essen.de