> CI Research Fund Launched

Jan. 10, 2003

As reported in the latest issue of The Immortalist, Dr. Yuri Pichugin has demonstrated the vitrifiability of new cryoprotectants with the potential to allow vitrification of CI's whole-body patients, without extra-fast cooling or warming, and without the need for new types of storage units at higher temperatures.

This development has the potential of being one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of cryonics as a science.

But research comes at a cost, and so the Cryonics Institute has begun a CI Research Fund, calling upon its members and anyone with an interest in a potentially great step forward in cryonics or in organ transplantation, to support CI's research efforts with a financial donation in any amount. The letter from CI President Robert Ettinger announcing the fund may be read in full online.

CI is hoping for full evaluation of results later this year with whole animal brains and also with human cadavers obtained from a mortuary college.

To review other CI research updates and reports, click any of the links below:

Dr. Yuri Pichugin: CI's Director of Research

CI Report: Independent Laboratory Research Findings

CI Report: Stepped Glycerol Concentrations Up To 75%

CI Report: Pichugin Research Findings Lead to New Solutions

On the Determination of Cracking Limits - Part One

On the Determination of Cracking Limits - Part Two