Repairing the lung: from single cells and tissue organisation to regenerative therapy – highlights of the Lung Science Conference 2025

Extract The 23rd Lung Science Conference (LSC) took place in March 2025 in Estoril, Portugal, and focussed on the understanding of the repair and regenerative capacity of the lung and how our advanced knowledge on this topic might contribute to new regenerative therapies for chronic lung diseases. The 2025 conference was organised by a team of four programme coordinators. Janette Burgess, an expert on the extracellular matrix (ECM) in lung diseases from Groningen (the Netherlands) and Emma Rawlins, a specialist on human lung development from Cambridge (UK), were joined by Carla Kim from Harvard Children's Hospital (USA) with her strong expertise on stem cell biology of the lung. Sara Cuevas Ocaña represented the early career scientists with her expertise of stem cell therapy. As the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Conferences and Seminars Director, Silke Meiners set the topic and brought the team together. She passed this baton on to Didier Cataldo, the new ERS Conferences and Seminars Director and LSC organiser.