TY - JOUR T1 - Statement from the Early Career Member Committee (ECMC) Chair and Co-chair and introduction of the new ECMC members JF - Breathe JO - Breathe DO - 10.1183/20734735.0281-2020 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 200281 AU - Niki Ubags AU - Maxime Patout AU - Orianne Dumas AU - Joana Cruz Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/17/1/200281.abstract N2 - The Early Career Member Committee (ECMC) of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) consists of a group of 14 ERS members below 40 years of age, who represent the interests of the Early Career Members (ECMs) from the assemblies. Each ECM representative has specific tasks within the ECMC, which have been presented in a previous issue of Breathe [1]. In 2020, Niki Ubags and Maxime Patout took up the position of Chair and Co-chair of the ECMC and two ECMs joined the Committee and became the ECM representatives for Assemblies 6 and 9. This article provides a statement from the ECMC Chair and Co-chair and introduces the two new members of the ECMC.Statement from the Chair and Co-chair of the ERS Early Career Member Committee (ECMC) and introduction to the new members of this committee https://bit.ly/3ltuWX9J. Cruz acknowledges the support of the Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare) of the Polytechnic of Leiria, funded by Portuguese national funds provided by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) (UIDB/05704/2020 and UIDP/05704/2020). ER -