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Cell Communication and Signaling (CCS) is an open access journal that encompasses all basic and translational aspects of cellular communications and signaling pathways in normal and pathological conditions.
Beginning in January of 2019, CCS is pleased to announce their affiliation with the International Cell Death Society. 
The journal encourages submissions in all aspects of cell death, that include apoptotic and non-apoptotic mechanisms of cell death, cell death in model systems, autophagy, clearance of dying cells, as well as the immunological and pathological consequences of dying cells in the tissue microenvironment. 

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Editor-in-Chief 
Raymond Birge, New Jersey Medical School, USA
Associate Editors 
Marianne J. Cronjé, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dhyan Chandra, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Karlheinz Friedrich, University of Jena, Germany 
Silja Wessler, University of Salzburg, Austria
Editorial Board 
Peter Benz, Goethe University, Germany 
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jerry Edward Chipuk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
A. Keith Dunker, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Maria-Magdalena Georgescu, University of Texas, USA 
Lorenzo Galluzzi, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Devrim Gozuacik, Sabanci University, Turkey
Douglas K. Graham, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Ralf Hass, Medical University Hannover, Germany 
Bass Hassan, University of Oxford, UK
Ludger Hengst, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Emilio Hirsch, University of Turin, Italy 
Ottmar Janssen, Christian-Albrechts-University, Germany
Arnd Kieser, Helmholtz Center, Germany 
Beatrice Knudsen, Cedars Sinai Hospital, USA 
Walter Kolch, University College Dublin, Ireland
Leszek Kotula, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA
Richard W Kriwacki, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA 
Katharina Kubatzky, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany 
Yuchen Liu, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, China
Kazuya Machida, University of Connecticut, USA
Sandra Pellegrini, Institut Pasteur, France 
Shazib Pervaiz, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rina Plattner, University of Kentucky, USA
Valeria Poli, University of Turin, Italy 
Rodrigo Resende, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Carla Rothlin, Yale University, USA
Hisataka Sabe, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan 
Kalle Saksela, University of Helsinki, Finland 
Wolfgang Schamel, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Germany 
Fred Schaper, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany 
Burkhart Schraven, University of Magdeburg, Germany 
Edgar Serfling, University of Würzburg, Germany 
Anwen Shao, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Shinya Tanaka, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan
David Ucker, University of Illinois, USA
Oliver Ullrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Uwe Vinkemeier, Nottingham University, UK
Yi Wu, Temple University School of Medicine, USA
Zahra Zakeri, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA
Jie Zheng, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA