Ten years later…

This year we’re coming upon the tenth anniversary of our biannual International Workshop on the CCN family of genes. It was during our very first meeting that the International CCN Society was conceived. This editorial provides us with the opportunity to briefly review how the need for a CCN meeting emerged and evolved, following the discovery of CTGF, CYR61, and NOV, the three founding members of the CCN family of proteins that in humans are known as as CCN1 (CTGF), CCN2 (CYR61), CCN3(NOV), CCN4(WISP1), CCN5 (WISP2) and CCN6 (WISP3).