TY - JOUR T1 - ERS International Congress 2020: highlights from the Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation Assembly JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00743-2020 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 00743-2020 AU - Dorina Esendagli AU - Unmil Shah AU - Guntug Batihan AU - Dimitrios Magouliotis AU - Federica Meloni AU - Robin Vos AU - Stefano Elia AU - Merel Hellemons Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/1/00743-2020.abstract N2 - The Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Assembly of the European Respiratory Society is delighted to present the highlights from the 2020 Virtual International Congress. We have selected four sessions that discussed recent advances in a wide range of topics. From the use of robotic surgery in thoracic surgery and extracorporeal life support as a bridge to lung transplantation, to lung transplantation in the era of new drugs. The sessions are summarised by early career members in close collaboration with the assembly leadership. We aim to give the reader an update on the highlights of the conference in the fields of thoracic surgery and lung transplantation.The first “virtual” #ERSCongress was a great success, with very diverse and important sessions on innovation and the state of the art in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation, summarised in this article https://bit.ly/392uwUA ER -