Calls General Rules

General rules: abstracts for poster presentation & rising stars candidacies submission

Abstract submission will open soon

You are invited to submit a research abstract or case report on topics related to bronchiectasis and NTM for consideration as:

The main topic areas have been determined and reflect key questions to be discussed:

Aetiology

Airway Clearance

Bacteriophage therapy

Clinical Trial

Co-infections

Comorbidities

Diagnosis

Environmental conditions

Epidemiology

Guidelines

Management

Microbiome

Pathophysiology

Refractory NTM

Registries

Surgical Treatments

Treatments

The deadline for abstract submission is 24 August 2026. Abstract submission will only be accepted via the online platform.
Abstracts must be submitted on or before the above-mentioned deadline, the organisers reserve the right to reject any abstract not following the required format.
Changes on abstracts are possible until the deadline by re-entering the online submission.
Presenting authors should be registered participants
The abstract must be written in English. If English is not your first language, please have it reviewed. The abstract must not contain any spelling, grammatical or scientific error.
No corrections are possible after the submission deadline. The abstract will be reproduced exactly as submitted. No proofreading will be done.

All the communications concerning the abstract will be sent to the submitter who will be responsible for informing the other authors of the status of the abstract.
For each abstract a presenting author has to be identified. For any change in the presenter’s name, please make sure to inform the Organising Secretariat info@apb-conference.org
The presenting author must accept full responsibility for the content, submission, and presentation of the abstract, and retain full copyright of their abstract and presentation.
By submitting an abstract, authors automatically authorise the Conference to include their abstract (as well as picture(s), graph(s) and biography) in the Abstract Book of the Conference that will be available on the Conference website.
The submitted work must not be published as a full paper in a journal by the time of the meeting or have appeared in print elsewhere (except in abstract form) prior to the meeting.

Structured abstracts are mandatory stating clearly the Background/Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
Abstracts should be written in English and the complete abstract must not exceed the box space (500 words). Abstracts can contain formulas, pictures or graphs.
We recommend that you prepare your text in a word processing programme (e.g. Microsoft Word) and then copy-paste the final text into the online abstract submission form.
It is possible to submit more than one abstract.
A submitted abstract can have a maximum of one presenting author.
A submitted abstract can be edited online until the given deadline (24 August 2026)
Conflict of Interest/Disclosure: Abstracts must include an acknowledgement of any commercial funding sources. Authors should declare all commercial interests.
All studies must have been approved by institutional committees on ethics of experimental and human investigations.

To submit your abstract online, please follow the instructions:

Enter the online system and fill your personal details if you do not have an existing profile.
Click on the button “click here to submit your abstract” in the dashboard
Select the appropriate category “Rising Stars” or “Posters”
Select the appropriate topic among the list
Insert the authors and co-authors name
Insert affiliations for each author and associate
Make sure that you identify the Presenter among the existing authors
Insert the abstract Title
Insert the body (That must be submitted in the required format)
State the conflict-of-interest disclosures for each author at the end of the submitted abstract (If there are no conflict of interest, it should be stated as well).
For rising star Only: Upload a Full academic curriculum including publications and / or poster presentations made in the past

If you have any questions regarding abstracts, please write to info@apb-conference.org