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DDW brings together the brightest minds from across the field and the globe — making it the ideal place to showcase your research and gain valuable feedback from your peers. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to virtually share your findings and to deepen our collective knowledge base of digestive diseases. 

General abstract submission for the 2021 meeting closed on Dec. 3, 2020. To give authors the opportunity to submit novel research that was not complete at the general submission deadline, DDW will accept late-breaking abstract submissions from 9 a.m. EDT on March 25, 2021, through 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 1, 2021.

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Key Dates

Mark your calendar for these important dates related to DDW 2021 abstract submission:

  • Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at 3 p.m. EST: Co-author disclosures due.
  • Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021: Acceptance notifications sent by email to presenting authors.

The following timeline applies to late-breaking abstract submissions:

  • Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 9 a.m. EDT: Late-breaking submission site opens.
  • Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 5 p.m. EDT: Late-breaking submission site closes.
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, at 3 p.m. EDT: Co-author disclosures due.
  • Tuesday, April 27, 2021: Acceptance notifications sent by email to presenting authors.

Previous Years

Abstracts selected for presentation at DDW 2020 are available in the DDW ePosters archive.

Additionally, abstracts selected for presentation by AASLD, AGA and SSAT were published online in the May 2020 supplement to Gastroenterology. Abstracts selected for presentation at DDW 2020 by ASGE were published online in the May 2020 supplement to GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 

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