In memoriam of a prominent composer of the Bcl-2 family symphony.

摘要

This review series honours Stanley J Korsmeyer, a great man, superb mentor and dedicated cancer and apoptosis biologist who largely contributed to the findings, concepts and models about apoptosis regulation by Bcl-2 family members, which you are going to read here. It is not my intention to summarize all his achievements as this has been done in many obituaries since his death on March 31, 2005, and each Review and News and Commentary in this series again contains acknowledgements, tributes and personal notes for him. I just want to focus on some highlights in the partition of the Bcl-2 family symphony that Stan helped to compose together with other research groups.