The novel 2006 award, with a prize of 10,000 Euro, will be presented for the best scientific manuscript in the field of dynamic pressure distribution analysis. The paper must be entirely original, not published at the time of the meeting in any journal nor submitted for publication to any journal or book. The paper must describe a scientific study including pressure distribution measurement.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb 28, 2006 (prolonged). Six of these abstracts will be nominated for the novel award by April 1, 2006.

The nominated authors will be requested to send a full length (25 page maximum, double spaced) paper by June 15, 2006 and will present the paper at the meeting in a 30 minute talk. A blind review of papers will be conducted by a prominent panel of experts.

The novel award will be presented to the winner at the banquet. The general abstract instruction to authors can be found in the ´Authors´ section at www.elsevier.com/locate/clinbiomech.

• ESM 2004 Abstracts

• Guidelines for authors (by Elsevier, Clinical Biomechanics)

• Guidelines for Abstracts (English)

• Guidelines for Abstracts (German)