By Staff
Happy New Year! We’re already thinking about ENDO 2025, taking place July 12-14 in the beautiful city of San Francisco, California.
Plans are well underway for the Poster Hall, one of ENDO’s largest and most anticipated events. Our abstract submissions period opened in December, and already we’ve received hundreds of abstracts.
The deadline to submit is January 30, at 1:00 PM ET!
We encourage anyone who is engaged in endocrine research to submit an abstract, which is an excellent way to build your CV and network with likeminded scientists. It's also our goal is to surpass last year’s record of 2,605 submissions. Abstracts cover basic, clinical, and translational research, along with clinical trials, across roughly 100 topical areas.
Abstract reviewer Carolina Hurtado, MD, of the University of Southern California, offered some thoughts recently on what she looks for when reading submissions.
“In certain occasions, I'm actually learning from the abstract,” Hurtado notes. “Anytime I learn something new, that really makes me think this is something excellent.”
She advises prospective submitters to develop research abstracts that fill knowledge gaps in endocrinology. “Even if it's a case report—situations where we don't have a lot of literature there— that will definitely stand out.”
The benefits of submitting are numerous. Hurtado recalls submitting abstracts as a trainee and eventually earning a spot as an oral presenter. “That's going to help you, not only when you're applying for fellowships and jobs, but it also helps you connect with mentors in the area that you might not have connected.”
For ENDO 2025, Hurtado says she’s excited to see more abstracts submitted from around the world, as well as from members of underrepresented communities in medicine and science.
Seeing thousands of posters lined up in rows is an impressive sight. The Poster Hall is organized to create a flow, Hurtado notes. “If someone's interested in this abstract, they might be interested in the next five or six abstracts that are next to it.”
Abstracts are something that Daniel Frigo, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, looks forward to each year.
“I'm still old school…the abstracts have been a part of meetings for as long as I can remember,” he says. “I just enjoyed going out to the posters, seeing what the trainees are doing, because that's usually the most current research. And then you can talk about things and dive into details.”
Learn more about the abstracts and ENDO 2025, and the exciting line up of Plenary Sessions.
