PSL Chemical Biology Symposia: Recent Progress in Ferroptosis

This symposium is the 5th PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) Chemical Biology meeting (2015, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024) held at Institut Curie. This initiative originally started at Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in Gif‐sur‐Yvette, with a strong focus on chemistry. It was then continued at the Institut Curie (2015) covering a larger scope, before becoming the official PSL Chemical Biology meeting. This latest edition hosted around 150 participants and was focused on the burgeoning field of ferroptosis, its mechanism and implications in health and disease. While not initially planned, it was felt that the next large Ferroptosis venue (CSHA, China) would not happen before late 2024. A discussion involving Conrad, Birsoy, Ubellacker, Brabletz and Rodriguez next to lake Como in Italy sponsored by the DKFZ, prompted us to fill in this gap and to organize a Ferroptosis meeting in Paris beforehand. Not initially planned: While waiting for the large upcoming Ferroptosis event in late 2024 (CSHA,China), this 5th PSL Chemical Biology Symposium, was held at the Institut Curie in Paris on 26th January. This event showed the state of the art in Ferroptosis, an iron‐dependent form of cell death. World‐leading scientists featured the latest innovations and future trends in this innovative and dynamic field related to cancer and degenerative diseases.