Events

Update

The next meeting of the ArLD SIG scheduled to take place during the International Liver Congress on 27th August has been cancelled.

Provisional new meeting date - Thursday 9th July from 15:00 - 17:00.

The meeting will be a 'virtual' meeting and further details will follow nearer the time.

Registration - to register for the meeting please contact Kim@basl.org.uk  .

Update

A new date is being planned for the BLNA Nurse Meeting to take place during the BASL Annual Meeting which is moving to a digital event for 2020.

New dates have been announced for BASL2020 which run from Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd September 2020 and the programme sessions will be held across the afternoons of the 3 days.

As members will be aware that due to the challenges posed in dealing with the COVID19 pandemic the face to face meeting that was due to be held in Plymouth in September is unable to go ahead as planned.

Abstract submissions will open shortly with a closing date of early July.

Further announcements will be made on the website when available and if you have any questions, please contact steve@basl.org.uk .

Unfortunately due to the Covid-19 Pandemic BASL has taken the difficult decision to postpone the Basic Science Retreat meeting until 2021. 

The ethos of the Basic Science Retreat is to provide an opportunity for networking and scientific discussion therefore we feel that a face to face meeting would be preferable to holding a digital meeting, which would likely be a condensed schedule.

As the situation with Covid-19 becomes clearer we will continue to review our plans and be better placed to make a decision about whether a face to face meeting will be possible sometime in March 2021.

Thank you for your continued support for BASL and further information will be added to the website once known. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact steve@basl.org.uk .

We are delighted to announce that there will be a BASL Annual Meeting in 2020 and that it will be going ahead as a digital event.

As members are aware due to the challenges posed in dealing with the COVID19 pandemic the face to face meeting that was due to be held in Plymouth in September is unable to go ahead as planned.

Note the Change of Dates - Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd September - the programme sessions will be held across the afternoons of the 3 days.

Registration - planning is very much in the early stages with a new virtual programme being confirmed.  Further details on how to register will be announced soon. It is hoped that the BASL programme will still include some joint sessions with colleagues from AASLD. 

Abstract Submission Now Open - Deadline 09:00 Wednesday 1st July 2020

If you would like the chance to present your latest research on one or more of the topics below please submit an abstract for review:

• Alcohol & Metabolic Liver Disease
• Auto Immune Liver Disease
• Basic Science
• Cancer
• Cirrhosis & its Complications
• Clinical Service Development
• COVID and the liver
• Nursing
• Other
• Transplantation
• Viral hepatitis

Abstracts will be judged by a selected panel of reviewers following the submission deadline and submitting authors will be notified as to whether their submitted abstract has been accepted for presentation.

Please note that there is a total overall word limit for your submission of 400 words (excluding title, names of authors and affiliations). A table and figure can be included in your abstract.  Any table or chart will count for 150 words out of your total. Please try to remain within this limit.

Read more and submit your abstract by clicking > HERE.

BASL Awards - awards will be offered to the top ten scoring abstracts submitted by non-consultant and trainee BASL members and a prize will also be given to the top poster from each category. 

Keep checking the website for updates on the opening of applications for the Dame Sheila Sherlock Research Prize. 

We very much hope that our members will be able to join us for this year's BASL Annual Meeting and should you have any questions, please contact steve@basl.org.uk . 

Save the Date

Turkish and British Associations for the Study of the Liver (TASL-BASL) are pleased to announce a monothematic conference, “Drug-induced Liver Injury: Unresolved questions and unmet needs” in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 15-17, 2020. We hope that the programme will be a timely and welcome opportunity to reflect upon an area of critical importance for clinicians, researchers, scientists, pharma and other health care professionals.

Further details including a draft programme and how to register for the conference will follow. 

Save the Date

The next Wilson's Disease SIG Meeting will take place at Queen's Square, UCL, London.

More details will follow. 

Save the Date

The next CCA-UK Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday 22nd November 2020.

The meeting is being hosted at the BASO Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held on 22-23 November 2020 at The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL.

Further details, including how to register, will follow.  Should you have any questions please contact Kim@basl.org.uk .