DDA Annual Day 2021
The Annual Day is a celebration of the high quality of diabetes research in Denmark and abroad with the purpose of giving diabetes researchers in Denmark the opportunity to create fruitful networks and to give and/or listen to inspirational talks. Before the event you can nominate a scientist who you believe deserves acknowledgments and, at the event, DDA will give out the two DDA awards to talented early-career scientists. See how you nominate a scientist below.
- Time & place
- Who can attend?
- Detailed description
- Programme & speakers
- Organisers
- Registration
- COVID-19 Code of conduct
- Additional information
TIME & PLACE
Date: 8 December 2021
Venue: Hotel Storebælt, Østerøvej 121, DK-5800 Nyborg
WHO CAN ATTEND?
The event is intended for all researchers working within any field of diabetes, including both clinical, basic and translational and/or interdisciplinary research within fields related to diabetes.
The event is free of charge.
Please note, that you are not guaranteed a seat at the DDA Annual Day if you do not meet the target group requirements. Priority is given to participants within diabetes and metabolism employed at Danish research and health institutions or in the life science industry, but a number of seats are reserved for participants employed at research and health institutions or in the life science industry abroad. If the event is overbooked, DDA reserves the right to select participants based on the defined requirements and country of employment.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The DDA Annual Day will include inspirational talks on complications to diabetes and big data and highlight the establishment of the two other Danish academies: Danish Cardiovascular Academy and Danish Data Science Academy.
(1) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The DDA Annual Day will include poster presentations from early-career researchers. Therefore, we invite all postdocs and PhD students (obligatory for DDA-funded postdocs and PhD students) to submit an abstract in addition to their registration. DDA will evaluate the incoming abstracts and select the ones who will be offered a poster presentation at the event. There will be awards for the three best posters (see below).
Please submit your abstract on the registration page.
Submission deadline: 10 November 2021
Format of abstract:
The abstract should be max 1,500 characters incl. spaces and written in Arial 10.
Please download the abstract template, fill it out and upload it at the registration page in word format.
Title of abstract:
Presenting author name(s)
Affiliation: Name of workplace incl. city and country
Background and aim:
Text in Arial 10
Material and methods:
Text in Arial 10
Results (if you have results)
Text in Arial 10
Conclusion (and perspectives)
Text in Arial 10
No photos and tables should be included in the abstract.
Please submit your abstract in word-format.
(2) POSTER AWARDS
There will be awards for the three best posters:
1st Price: 3,000 DKK
2nd Price: 2,000 DKK
3rd Price: 1,500 DKK
Poster format
- Bring a poster size: A0 or A1 – width: max. 1 m/ height: max. 1.25 m (see example of poster templates here)
- Formal language: English
Poster session procedure
- You will present your poster during a poster pitch session
- Your poster will be presented during two informal open poster sessions i.e. you are expected to stand by your poster and answer questions from passers-by during the poster session that your poster number is assigned to.
- Your poster will be displayed in a separate conference room.
- DDA will set up an evaluation process with specific evaluation criteria to decide who will win the three poster awards (further information will follow prior to the event)
(3) DANISH DIABETES ACADEMY AWARDS
On the DDA Annual Day, DDA will also hand out two diabetes awards to recognize, excellence, innovation, passion and commitment in Danish diabetes research. Therefore, DDA calls for nominations for:
- DDA-Funded Scientist Award: This award is presented to an early-career DDA-funded researcher (current or previous) who has shown great potential to be a world‐class researcher within his/her field of expertise.
- Young Investigator Award: This award is presented to an early-career researcher, below the age of 40, who is engaged in diabetes research in Denmark, and who has shown promising research and made an important contribution to the understanding and treatment of diabetes.
Requirements for nomination:
- A candidate can only be nominated once and only for either the DDA Young Investigator Award or the DDA-Funded Scientist Award. If DDA receives more than one nomination of the same candidate, only the nomination submitted first (according to date and time of submission) will be taken into consideration. Please note that only current or previous DDA-funded researchers can be nominated for the DDA-Funded Scientist Award. Other candidates should be nominated for the DDA Young Investigator Award.
- The candidates must be members of DDA (members of DDA can only nominate one person each, and members of the award committee cannot nominate a candidate)
- The candidates must be nominated by a member of DDA (members of DDA can only nominate one person each for each award, and members of the award committee cannot nominate a candidate)
- The candidates must be engaged in diabetes research in Denmark and affiliated with a Danish research institution or a life sciences company in Denmark.
- The candidates must hold a PhD degree and the candidate must have obtained her/his PhD degree within five years (for the Young Investigator Award) or ten years (for the DDA-Funded Scientist Award) (at the time of nomination)
The winners must be able to attend the award ceremony on the DDA Annual Day (8 December 2021)
Further information about the specific requirements for each award, nomination and evaluation can be found at the links below.
How to nominate?
To nominate a candidate, please follow the links below:
- DDA-Funded Scientist Award
- Young Investigator Award
Nomination deadline is 1 November 2021
PROGRAMME & SPEAKERS
- Professor Ruth Loos, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen (US)
- Professor Peter Rossing, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (DK)
- CEO Christian Aalkjær, Danish Cardiovascular Academy (DK)
- Professor Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, Chairman of the Board, Danish Data Science Academy (DK)
ORGANISERS
DDA Committee for Education
DDA Executive Management Team
Contact: ouh.dda@rsyd.dk
REGISTRATION
Registration deadline: 10 November 2021
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 November 2021
COVID-19 CODE OF CONDUCT
To ensure safe events, the DDA’s activities are organized in compliance with our Interim COVID-19 Code-of-conduct.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
No-show fee
Please note that it is free of charge to participate in the event; however, DDA will charge a no-show fee of 250 DKK if you do not show up and have not unregistered from the event prior to its start.