Priority will be given to original work with ethical approval (where applicable)

Mandatory requirements:

• Pre-registration is mandatory for the conference.
• Presenting authors must register for the conference on or before 31-12-2025; else the abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings.
• The abstracts should be uploaded online, and will not be accepted on emails or through any other mode.
• Please note that already published work will not be accepted.
• Institutional Review Board/Ethical Committee approval (where applicable) is mandatory
• Only 1 abstract per delegate/student is allowed as first author

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts

You are invited to submit informative abstracts of up to 300 words excluding the title of the abstract and author affiliations.

Scope covered:

The abstracts submitted must be in the area of Clinical Virology, Basic & Translational virology, recent advances, Epidemiology & Public Health virology and must be original work.

Abstracts should be structured under the following headings: Aim & Objectives, Methodology, Results and Conclusions

Abstract Title: Please write the title in ‘sentence case’. Kindly note, the text will be used as-is wherever your abstract title is being used, printed, or mentioned.

Authors and Affiliations: Corresponding/ Submitting Author: The person submitting the abstract (who’s email ID is used to create the profile) will be the single person to whom all correspondence/ communication will be sent.

Presenting Author: Details should be entered in the provided fields (even if the corresponding author is the presenting author of the abstract).

Co-authors: The system will give an option to fill details of up to 10 co-authors.

Affiliations: To be mentioned for each author, wherever indicated on the online portal.

Abstract Text

All structured abstracts are subjected to review by the Scientific Committee.

The abstract follows the format outlined below:

• Aims & Objectives
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusions
• Conflict of Interest Statement
• Ethical approval statement
• Financial support statement

If the research described in the abstract was supported by a commercial company, you must indicate the company's role in analyzing the data or preparing the abstract.

Important Note:

Submission of the abstract carries with it an obligation to present the accepted abstract in person without any change in scientific content during the allotted time in the ClinViCon 2026 conference.

Withdrawal of presentation should be intimated to the scientific committee on or before 20-01-2026.

If the presenting author (as mentioned during the abstract submission) is unable to present the paper at the conference for any reason, prior permission must be obtained from the Scientific Committee regarding the change of the presenting author on or before 20-01-2026. The substitute presenting author should register for the conference via offline mode and notify the Scientific Committee by sending an email to Clinvivon2026@cmcvellore.ac.in

Preference for oral or e-poster presentation may be indicated at the time of submission of abstract though the Decision of the Scientific Committee is final.