Mark your calendars for the DDEA Annual Day–when endocrinology and related research fields come together and celebrate a year of excellent science with DDEA!

This networking event programme consists of a fascinating keynote presentation in the morning, a poster session after lunch to help you expand your professional network, an awards ceremony, and a provoking panel discussion at the end of the day before cozy networking and socialising. There will be plenty of opportunities to enjoy the day with new and old colleagues in an informal setting.

JOIN THE ANNUAL DAY WITH AN ABSTRACT & POSTER

The DDEA Annual Day will include poster presentations. All researchers, especially early career researchers,  are warmly encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation.

Abstracts will be reviewed and selected for poster presentation after the registration & abstract submission deadline and participants will be notified if their abstract is accepted for poster presentation.

In addition, all participants with abstracts accepted for poster presentation will be asked to pitch their poster before the poster session. These teasers will help attract participants to your poster.

Please note that there will be awards for the three best posters:

1^st Prize: 3,000 DKK
2^nd Prize: 2,000 DKK
3^rd Prize: 1,500 DKK

DDEA will set up an evaluation process with specific criteria to determine the poster award winners (further information will follow prior to the event).

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 23 November 2025.

On the DDEA Annual Day, the DDEA will recognise excellence, innovation, passion and commitment in Danish diabetes and classical endocrinology research and education.

Therefore, DDEA calls for nominations for:

DDEA Early-Career Researcher Awards

The Early-Career Researcher Awards are presented to two individual early-career researchers (from Danish research institutions) who each has shown promising research and great potential to be world-class researchers within their fields of expertise and who each has made an important contribution to the understanding and treatment of diabetes and classical endocrine diseases . The two awards will be presented to: one early-career researcher within diabetes and one early-career researcher within classical endocrinology.

DDEA Research Education and Networking Award

The DDEA Research Education and Networking Award is presented to a national or international researcher (at any point of her/his career) who, on multiple occasions, has contributed to improvements of the DDEA and/or the Danish Diabetes Academy (DDA) activities within education, talent development, networking and/or collaboration, in the form of suggesting, encouraging and disseminating new or improved models for research education and networking. Thus, enhancing the knowledge and competences of early-career researchers and/or supporting networking and collaboration among early-career researchers.

The award will pay tribute to the voluntary work carried out by researchers within DDEA and/or DDA, and potential candidates may have been involved in programme development, organisation of activities or direct teaching within DDEA and/or DDA.

The winners must be able to attend the award ceremony at the DDEA Annual Day.

Further information about the specific requirements for each award, evaluation and how to nominate a candidate can be found at the links above.

Nomination deadline is 5 October 2025.

Confirmed speakers and panelists:

• • Keynote Speaker and Panelist: Anne Gerdes, Professor, University of Southern Denmark
  • Panelist: Adam Hulman, Associate Professor, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus
  • Panelist: Helene Westring Hvidman, Chief Physician, Hvidovre Hospital
  • Panelist: Niels Jørgen Langkilde, Chairperson, Patientforeningen (DK)
  • Panel Moderator: Anders Høeg Lammers, Journalist, Videnskab.dk (DK)

Organisers:

• Jori Aalders, Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center Odense
• Nicklas Rasmussen, Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center North Jutland
• Pratik Pokharel, Postdoc, Danish Cancer Institute
• Simon Chang, Postdoc, Aarhus University Hospital

The DDEA Annual Day is intended for all researchers working within any field of, or related to, diabetes, metabolism, and classical endocrinology, including clinical, basic, translational and/or interdisciplinary research in any sector. The event is free of charge, and participants are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note that you are not guaranteed a seat at the event if you do not meet the target group requirements. Priority is given to participants 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, DDEA reserves its right to select participants based on the defined requirements.

Lunch registration

DDEA will offer a networking lunch at Hotel Nyborg Strand during the event. Participation in the lunch is free of charge. Please sign up for the lunch upon registration, and indicate whether you have any dietary requirements.

Latest cancellation date & no-show fee
Please note that it is free of charge to participate in the event however the DDEA will charge a no-show fee of 1000 DKK if you do not show up and have not unregistered from the event by 10 January 2025.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:  23 November 2025

Abstract guidelines:
Be sure your abstract contains the following information and adheres to the following formatting guidelines before submission:

You may download the template here

The abstract should be max 1500 characters incl. spaces and written in Arial 10.

• Title of abstract (Use a short and specific title with title-style capitalization and put it in bold)
• Presenting author name(s) (Underline the presenting author’s name)
• Affiliation (Include unit, institution/company/hospital, city and country for all authors and put it in italic)

The body of the abstract contains the following content:

• Background and aim:
  Text in Arial 10
• Material and methods:
  Text in Arial 10
• Results (if obtained to-date)
  Text in Arial 10
• Conclusion (and perspectives)
  Text in Arial 10

No images, figures, charts or tables should be included in the abstract.

Please proofread carefully before submission and submit a Word file and please name the file that you submit with your name.

Format of poster

Size of poster: A0 or A1 – width max. 1 m/height max. 1.25 m (“Portrait format” is visually preferred)