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Review
. 2022 Jun 28;12(7):901.
doi: 10.3390/biom12070901.

Keeping Cell Death Alive: An Introduction into the French Cell Death Research Network

Gabriel Ichim  1 , Benjamin Gibert  2 , Sahil Adriouch  3 , Catherine Brenner  4 , Nathalie Davoust  5 , Solange Desagher  6 , David Devos  7 , Svetlana Dokudovskaya  4 , Laurence Dubrez  8 , Jérôme Estaquier  9 , Germain Gillet  10   11 , Isabelle Guénal  12   13 , Philippe P Juin  14 , Guido Kroemer  15 , Patrick Legembre  16 , Romain Levayer  17 , Stéphen Manon  18 , Patrick Mehlen  2 , Olivier Meurette  2 , Olivier Micheau  19 , Bernard Mignotte  12   13 , Florence Nguyen-Khac  20   21 , Nikolay Popgeorgiev  10   22 , Jean-Luc Poyet  23 , Muriel Priault  24 , Jean-Ehrland Ricci  25 , Franck B Riquet  26   27 , Santos A Susin  20 , Magali Suzanne  28 , Pierre Vacher  29 , Ludivine Walter  5 , Bertrand Mollereau  5
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Keeping Cell Death Alive: An Introduction into the French Cell Death Research Network

Gabriel Ichim et al. Biomolecules. .

Abstract

Since the Nobel Prize award more than twenty years ago for discovering the core apoptotic pathway in C. elegans, apoptosis and various other forms of regulated cell death have been thoroughly characterized by researchers around the world. Although many aspects of regulated cell death still remain to be elucidated in specific cell subtypes and disease conditions, many predicted that research into cell death was inexorably reaching a plateau. However, this was not the case since the last decade saw a multitude of cell death modalities being described, while harnessing their therapeutic potential reached clinical use in certain cases. In line with keeping research into cell death alive, francophone researchers from several institutions in France and Belgium established the French Cell Death Research Network (FCDRN). The research conducted by FCDRN is at the leading edge of emerging topics such as non-apoptotic functions of apoptotic effectors, paracrine effects of cell death, novel canonical and non-canonical mechanisms to induce apoptosis in cell death-resistant cancer cells or regulated forms of necrosis and the associated immunogenic response. Collectively, these various lines of research all emerged from the study of apoptosis and in the next few years will increase the mechanistic knowledge into regulated cell death and how to harness it for therapy.

Keywords: apoptosis; cancer; cell death; necrosis.

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Geographical distribution of the FCDRN research teams.
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