Inception and establishment of the International CCN Society (ICCNS) and of the Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling (JCCS): A response to A. Leask’s Editorial entitled "Modeling the microenvironment special issue"

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y 1992), a unique animal model of Wilms' tumor in humans (Perbal 1994).The ICCNS was officially recognized as a Non-Profit Association on January 17th, 2001 headed by Bernard Perbal and Annick Perbal, founding Executive Board members.The following details were never disclosed. The creation of ICCNS was originally proposed at the first International Workshop on the CCN family of Genes organized in Saint-Malo (France) October 17-19, 2000, a workshop organized by Bernard and Annick Perbal. On this occasion the discoverers of the six members of the CCN family of proteins (