Redox regulation in acute and chronic inflammation

Good things usually fly away faster than you realize, and in fact it is now 420 years ago that the first Italian–German Villa Vigoni conference on ‘Redox reactions in cellular regulations’ was held (1988, organized by Dr. Giorgio Bellomo and Dr. Volker Ullrich). This year, the role of redox regulation in acute and chronic inflammation has been the focus of the 10th conference, held at Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, in a fascinating venue that faces the breath-taking Lago di Como in northern Italy. Villa Vigoni was again an excellent environment to merge history and science, and a number of aspects of redox regulation were covered by 22 invited speakers (Figure 1).