SUBMISSION TEMPLATE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO MICRONEEDLES 2016

A. Author1, B. Author2, C. Author1, D. Author2 1Affiliation A. 2Affiliation B. [email protected]

This template should be used to format your abstract submission for Microneedles 2016, which will be held at GSK House, London from 23rd to 25th May 2016. Therefore the following styles and settings should be maintained: (i) font style (Arial), (ii) font size (Title - size 14, bold and CAPS; Authors – size 12, bold and sentence case; Affiliations - size 10, italics and sentence case; Body of text - size 10 and sentence case) (iii) page margins (2.5cm left, 2cm right, Top 1.69, Bottom 1.69) Figures and tables can be included (if required) but should be high resolution (to ensure print quality) and should be labeled appropriately (Fig 1, Fig 2).

We would like to invite and encourage submissions in all areas of microneedle research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:  Design and technology  Sensors  Clinical and pre-clinical results  Skin biomechanics  Fabrication and materials  Immunology  Coatings and formulation  Packaging and deployment  Drug and vaccine delivery  Regulatory Issues

Submissions from graduate students and early-stage researchers are particularly welcome. Both oral and poster contributions are invited and you will be ask to indicate your preference during the submission pro cess. Authors of selected high quality submissions will be invited to contribute a full paper to a special issue devoted to microneedles (Working title: Challenges and Advances in Microneedle Technology) to be published in The Journal of Controlled Release (current impact factor 7.705) at the end of 2016.

The purpose of an abstract submitted to Microneedles 2016 is twofold. First, it serves to inform the program committee what results you propose to present. Therefore, it is important within the first few sentences to state what your primary result is. It is also important to identify how the work differs from previous work from your own group and from other groups. Secondly, the accepted abstracts will be collected and distributed among the conference participants, so layout and clear figures are important.

When you have completed your abstract follow the six steps for submission on the abstract submission webpage.

Fig.1 Example of hollow silicon Fig.2 Example of dissolvable microneedle array. microneedle array.

References

1. A. Author and B. Author, “Paper about microneedles,” J. Microneedles, 6(3), 289–286 (2011). 2. A. Author and B. Author, Microneedle Book, Publishers, Cork, Ireland (2011).