Correction to: Oncogene (2005) 24, 790−800. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208221 Published online 13 December 2004

Since publication of the above manuscript, the authors have identified three errors in this paper. These are detailed here.

The correct affiliation for Jeffrey Stafford, Mui Cheung and Rakesh Kumar is ‘GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA’ and the correct affiliation for Deborah Philp and Hynda K Kleinman is ‘Cell Biology Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA’.

In the second sentence of the first paragraph of the Results section, the concentration ‘156-’ should be omitted.

The first sentence of the fourth paragraph of the same page should read ‘Our study demonstrates that GW654652 induces apoptosis in both HUVECs and M6 cells following a cell growth arrest…’.