Abstracts

This year, a total of 387 abstracts have been accepted for poster presentation. The result has been announced by the CGCM Central Office. Please click here for the full list of the accepted abstracts.

Highlights of the posters will be discussed during the relevant workshop discussion sessions. Conclusions, action plans and milestones are expected to be drawn from the workshop sessions. In addition, all accepted abstracts for the Meeting will be presented in the form of poster presentation in the Meeting venue. Authors of the accepted abstracts (or their representatives) will be invited to discuss personally with interested panel members and audience during designated timeslots at locations next to the authors' posters. The timeslots will be announced by the CGCM Central Office in due course.

The posters should be in A1-size (594mm x 841mm) with portrait-orientation. Please click here for the poster presentation guidelines.

Authors of the accepted abstracts (or their representatives) should hand in their printed posters to the Conference Secretariat Counter at the Cocktail Reception to be held on Sunday, August 22, 2010 (17:30-19:30) at Novotel Century Hong Kong Hotel, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, OR in the Registration Period (09:00-10:00) on the 1st day of the Meeting on Monday, August 23, 2010 at Level 1, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Wan Chai.

The Conference Secretariat will arrange for the poster display at HKCEC based on the assigned numbers of the posters given on the Abstract List on the official website. As allowed by the venue management, the posters will be displayed until 22:30 on Tuesday, 24 August 2010. The posters will be taken down afterwards and authors (or their representatives) can get back their posters from the Conference Secretariat Counter at Level 4, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong on the 3rd day of the Meeting on Wednesday, August 25, 2010.

Themes

Three new sessions are introduced in the upcoming meeting: "Acupuncture", "Objective and Standard Assessments of Diagnosis in TCM", and "Bioinformatics and Database II (Application of "Omics" in TCM Research)".

• Acupuncture
• Bioinformatics and Database (Classification Diseases & Herbal Database and Application of "Omics" in TCM Research)
• Biological Activities and Mechanism Study (Cancer, Immunomodulation, Mechanism & drug interaction and Metabolic, neural diseases & Aging process)
• Clinical Trial (Cancer & Liver Inflammation and Safety & Other diseases)
• Education
• Herbal Resources (Cultivation & Herbal Quality, Identification & Manufacturing and Natural Products & Biological Activities)
• Industry and Academic Collaborations
• International Collaborations
• Objective and Standard Assessments of Diagnosis in TCM
• Quality Control (Methodology)
• Regulatory Affairs

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

1. Abstract submission deadline was Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
2. Submitted abstracts should be sent to centraloffice@tcmedicine.org with the abstract submission form.
3. All abstracts must be submitted in ENGLISH (including the title, abstract text, authors' names, affiliations, figures and graphs).
4. Word limit: 300 words including acknowledgement.
5. The selected abstracts will be invited for poster presentation and published in the meeting program book. Once an abstract is accepted, the copyright of the abstract will be shared by the 9th Meeting of CGCM and the author.
6. Submission of abstracts does NOT constitute registration for the Meeting. All presenters are required to make registration for the Meeting separately.