ERS Congress 2025: highlights from the Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology Assembly

Assembly 1 (Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology) is the largest of the 14 European Respiratory Society (ERS) assemblies, comprising 9032 members, with 37% under 40 years of age (early career members). During the 2025 ERS Congress, in addition to the 13 specific sessions (including four symposia), 617 abstracts were accepted for presentation across the five groups within the assembly. While the ERS platform enables attendees to watch presentations on replay, it is particularly challenging to stay up to date with the diverse scientific and clinical advances presented at the Congress. This article, drafted by early career members of Assembly 1, thus offers an overview of some highlights presented at the 2025 ERS Congress in Amsterdam in line with the theme “Respiratory health around the globe”. Selected presentations are summarised from a wide range of topics (clinical problems, rehabilitation and chronic care, general practice and primary care, m-health/e-health, clinical respiratory physiology, exercise and functional imaging), highlighting the broad-based interest of the assembly.