Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

We are indebted with Dr. Avi Ashkenazi (Genentech Inc.) for his constructive suggestions. We apologize to the authors of several high-quality articles dealing with mechanistic or pathophysiological aspects of cell death that we were not able to properly discuss. L.G. is supported by an intramural startup from the Department of Radiation Oncology of Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, US), and by Sotio a.c. (Prague, Czech Republic). I.V. is supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC, IG 2017 grant number 20417), Ministero Italiano della Salute (grant number RF_GR-2011-02351355), Ministero Italiano dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR, Programma per i Giovani Ricercatori "Rita Levi Montalcini" 2010). G.K. is supported by the French Ligue contre le Cancer (equipe labellisee); Agence National de la Recherche (ANR)-Projets blancs; ANR under the frame of E-Rare-2, the ERA-Net for Research on Rare Diseases; Association pour la recherche sur le cancer (ARC); Canceropole Ile-de-France; Institut National du Cancer (INCa); Institut Universitaire de France; Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (FRM); the European Commission (ArtForce); the European Research Council (ERC); the LeDucq Foundation; the LabEx Immuno-Oncology; the SIRIC Stratified Oncology Cell DNA Repair and Tumor Immune Elimination (SOCRATE); the SIRIC Cancer Research and Personalized Medicine (CARPEM); and the Paris Alliance of Cancer Research Institutes (PACRI).