will test whether our investment in defining the basic mechanisms of cell death will
harvest rich dividends in diverse fields of clinical medicine.
AcknowledgmentsWork in our laboratories is supported by the National Institutes of Health (National
Cancer Institute), the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command—
Department of Defense, the Passano Foundation, the Valvano Foundation for Cancer
Research, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, the Susan G.Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation, and the Virginia and D.K.Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research.
We thank our colleagues for their insights, stimulating discussions and contributions,
and apologize to those scientists whose work we have either inadvertently failed to
mention or cited indirectly through reviews.
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