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Abstracts for GSA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting

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Call for Abstracts

The call for abstracts is open from February 1 - March 13, 2025.
(CLOSED)

Abstract Resources

Review the following resources before submitting your 2025 abstract.

Submitting your Abstract FAQs

Abstract Submission 
Planning Guide

Inaugural message; GSA President Marilyn Gugliucci

How Do I Submit my Abstract? (CLOSED)

Why Submit?

  • Enhance your career by presenting your research at the most prestigious gathering of experts in the field of aging.
  • Discuss your study findings with over 4,500 attendees from more than 36 countries.
  • Multiple presentation options include papers, posters, and symposia.
  • Accepted abstracts are published in Innovation in Aging, a fully Open Access online journal of the Gerontological Society of America.
  • Build strategic partnerships and turn challenges into opportunities.
  • Over $10,000 in travel grants available to early career investigators, trainees, and students participating in the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting. 
  • Dozens of journalists cover the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting; abstracts have been referenced in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, NBC News, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, Time, U.S. News & World Report, and others—with millions of media impressions each year.

Submission Fees

The abstract submission fee is a processing fee that is nonrefundable (regardless of acceptance). Once the abstract has been submitted, it is considered processed. 

Submission Type

  • Symposium
  • Paper or Poster
  • Paper or Poster (students)

Submission Fee

  • Symposium Fee $60
  • Paper or Poster Fee $50
  • Student Fee $30

Important Dates

Saturday, February 1 - Thursday, March 13

Saturday, February 1 - Tuesday, March 4

Saturday, February 1 - Thursday, March 13

Saturday, March 1 - Wednesday, September 3

(early bird rates are available until 11:59 PM ET on 9/3/25)

Saturday, March 1. The reservation hub will remain open until all GSA-negotiated spaces are sold out or until October 25.

Saturday, March 1 - Friday September 26

Saturday, March 1, Exhibitor, Sponsorship, and Advertisement ordering opportunities begin.

Early June 2025

Friday, June 6 - Tuesday, July 29

Mid-July 2024

Friday, July 11 - Thursday, August 1

Please note: Program Areas open for Late Breaker Poster Abstracts Submissions are: Behavioral and Social Sciences (priority will be given to GSA student and transitional members and non-member students); Biological Sciences; Health Sciences; Social Research, Policy, and Practice; and Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education

More details be be made available in July 2025 on the GSA Annual Meeting Website > Late Breaking Abstracts webpage.

All selected abstract speakers must register or withdraw for GSA 2025 by Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

Early October 2025

Contact Us

For any abstract-related questions and/or comments, email abstracts@geron.org.

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Registration

All meeting participants are required to register to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting. Register by 11:59 PM ET, September 3, 2025, to receive the Early Bird rate.

Abstract Book

Accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement issue of Innovation in Aging , under the title: Program Abstracts from the GSA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. The Abstract Book will be available electronically only.

The abstract information published in the Abstract Book will appear exactly as provided in the abstract submission (i.e., author information: names, institution/organization, city, state, country; abstract title; abstract text).

 

 

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