We are pleased to announce that the 21^st ECDO Euroconference on Apoptosis entitled « Cell Death: a Biomedical Paradigm» will be held in Paris at the Institut Pasteur on September 25-28, 2013. ECDO Euroconference is an annual international meeting that will address a wide range of questions on the normal regulation and pathogenic dysfunction of distinct cell death modalities, the new strategies for therapeutic cancer cell induction, and the immunogenicity of distinct cell death types.