Abstracts

For late breaking abstract details and submission deadlines, please visit: late-breaking-abstracts

For any questions regarding abstracts please contact: abstract.wms@meaconsulting.se

Please note, you will need to ‘create a new account’ for this purpose, independent from your Congress registration account (your Congress registration log in details are not recognised for abstract submission).

Submission Guidelines

• The presenting author must be registered for the congress in order to be able to submit an abstract. Only the presenting author can be the submitter of an abstract. An abstract submitted by someone who is not the presenter will be refused.
• To submit an abstract the author will have to enter a specific code in the submission form. The code is to be found in the registration confirmation email in RED text.
• Upon submission, indicate one of the following topics that best describes the content of the abstract:
• New developments in congenital muscle disease
• Gene modifiers and gene delivery in neuromuscular disorders
• Advances in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders
• New advances across the neuromuscular field.
• Abstracts must be written in English.
• Maximum 2,000 characters (including spaces and excluding title and contact information on authors). The title must have a maximum of 150 characters.
• A maximum of 20 co-authors per abstract are allowed. If more co-authors have contributed, these should be summarily stated as Study Group and can later be displayed on the poster or appropriately be acknowledged during an oral.
• References and credits are not to be included in the abstract, nor subheadings, tables, figures or keywords.
• Note that all subheadings in abstracts will automatically be deleted by the programme committee.
• Abstracts cannot be submitted by fax, hard copy or e-mail.
• It is the presenting authors responsibility to make the appropriate potential conflict of interest disclosure acknowledgement on their poster/slide as indicated during the abstract submission process. It is the presenting authors responsibility to notify the organisers of any change to this status between submission and the congress. When recording presentations with speakers, the virtual platform technician will remind the speaker to include a disclosure slide at the start. Slide templates are available Here.
• There is no fee to submit an abstract. A WMS Membership is not required to submit an abstract.
• The submitter will receive all correspondence concerning the abstract including acknowledgement of receipt of the submission and is responsible for informing co-authors of the status of the abstract.
• The submitter will have access to the abstract after submission via an online Personal Page (see below) until the relevant abstract deadline.
• In cases where the abstract is NOT accepted, participants will be contacted promptly and refunded if necessary.
• It is the author’s responsibility to submit a correct abstract; if accepted, any errors in spelling, grammar, or scientific fact may be reproduced as typed by the author. The Programme Committee reserves the right to shorten the abstract title to allow its publication in the congress programme and Neuromuscular Disorders Journal and edit the content to remove acknowledgements and misspellings identified by the Programme Committee.
• Outcome notification for abstracts and fellowships will be sent out at the end of May/ beginning of June, after the programme committee meeting.

Early career and first time prize nominations: Poster presenters who are eligible for the young presenter and/or first time presenter awards will have a label on the E-Poster accordingly. Applicants should be in training and not yet in a definite established position. The maximum age for applicants is 40 years old, indicated during abstract submission.

Personal Page

When the abstract is submitted the author can follow the progress online by entering his/her Personal Page for abstracts.

The Personal Page for abstracts makes it possible for the author to make changes until the submission deadline:
Student abstracts submission deadline: 2nd March 2020 (Midnight GMT)
General abstracts submission deadline: 2nd April 2020 (Midnight GMT)

Read and check the abstract

The author will be able to access the Personal Page for abstracts by entering the personal user ID and password indicated in the file attached to the confirmation email after submission before the abstract submission deadline. After this date it is not possible to access the Personal Page.

For any questions regarding abstracts please contact: abstract.wms@meaconsulting.se