The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) registry which collects data from hundreds of participating centers supports research in ECMO to help improve patient outcomes. The ELSO Scientific Oversight Committee, an international and diverse group of ECMOlogists (https://www.elso.org/registry/socmembers.aspx), selected the most impactful and innovative research articles on pediatric ECMO emerging from ELSO data. Here they present brief highlights of these publications.