Here we provide a snapshot of the novel interdisciplinary concepts that were discussed at the Lung Science Conference 2025, focussing on the repair capacity of the lung to develop regenerative therapies for chronic lung diseases https://bit.ly/3J8yAHO 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. eng
