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Northern California Meeting, July 22 – 3:00 pm

Join us for the Northern California meeting on July 22 at 3:00pm Zheng & Tim will be hosting the event at their home, 381 N Fernwood Circle, Sunnyvale, CA Please bring a dish to share for the potluck If you have any questions please contact Mark Galeck – 650-772-1251

The Alcor Endowment Trust Supporting Organization

Alcor is pleased to announce the creation of the Alcor Endowment Trust Supporting Organization. The Alcor Endowment is a Type II supporting organization intended to support the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. It will provide that support by prudently investing funds above and beyond what makes sense to allocate for general operations and research, and by […]

Alcor creates a new trust for Patient Care funds

When Alcor created the Alcor Patient Care Trust (“PCT”) in 1997, our purpose was to create a safe place to grow and protect the funds reserved for care of Alcor’s cryopreserved patients. The number one purpose of Alcor is and has to be to maintain the already cryopreserved patients. Who would trust a cryonics organization […]

Norma D. Peterson, A-1547, becomes Alcor’s 156th Patient on February 22, 2018

Norma D. Peterson, A-1547, a non-confidential neuropreservation member was pronounced on February 22, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona. The same day she became Alcor’s 156th patient. On Tuesday, February 20 2018, Alcor received a Telemed alert about a patient in Redwood City, California. Norma Peterson was a hospice patient living in a memory care nursing home. […]

Alcor Position Statement on Brain Preservation Foundation Prize

From Alcor President, Max More March 13, 2018 In December 2015, 21st Century Medicine, Inc. published peer-reviewed results of a new cryobiological and neurobiological technique, aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation (ASC) that provides strong proof that brains can be preserved well enough at cryogenic temperatures for neural connectivity (the connectome) to be completely visualized. This week the Brain […]

A-3079, becomes Alcor’s 154th Patient on November 16, 2017

A-3079, a confidential Whole Body member, was pronounced on November 12, 2017 in Nice, France. A-3079 became a patient of Alcor on November 16th, 2017 when a family member signed her third-party paperwork. The patient arrived in Phoenix, AZ on Tuesday the 28th on dry ice and was transported to Alcor. Once at Alcor, the […]