Mike Darwin

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Michael G. Darwin, formerly known as Michael Federowicz, (born April 26, 1955) is the former president of the

Twenty-First Century Medicine (a cryobiological/critical care medicine research company) from 1993 to 1999.[2]

Early life

He was born in

honorable mention out of a sense of fair play. At the fair, however, he learned that a Dr. James Bedford had been frozen in California. This was the beginning of Darwin's lifelong interest in cryonics
.

Career in cryonics

Federowicz contacted the

patron of Michael's rapidly growing cryonics technical skills.[3] When he was 17, he got an invitation from Saul Kent to cryopreserve a cryonics patient for CSNY. Darwin had independently built his own cryonics equipment, which he found on his New York visit to be more sophisticated than that CSNY had actually used for cryopreservation.[3] When he began his career as a dialysis technician, Michael adopted "Darwin" as his surname for his cryonics persona
, so as not to endanger his career by the association with cryonics.

Darwin and Stephen Bridge co-founded the Institute for Advanced Biological Studies (IABS) in Indianapolis in 1977, which merged with the then-California-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1982. Darwin served as the President of Alcor, and then as the Research Director from 1988 to 1992, leaving Alcor in 1992.[2] About 50 former Alcor members joined in the founding of the CryoCare Foundation, an organization dedicated to cryonics which later went defunct.[2] Darwin founded a company, BioPreservation, which contracted perfusion and transport services to CryoCare.[2]

He is the author of such articles as ′History of DMSO and Glycerol in Cryonics′,[4] ′How Dead is Dead Enough?′ (2008), ′Cryonics: Why it has failed, and possible ways to fix it′ (2008).[5]

Darwin is a

vegetarian.[3] His dog Mitzi is preserved at Alcor.[6]

Technical accomplishments

Darwin was the first full-time cryonics researcher, for one year for Alcor in the 1970s.

UCLA cardiothoracic researcher Jerry Leaf during the 1980s, and physician Dr. Steven B. Harris in the 1990s to create many of the key technologies and practices of modern cryonics
.

Published works

See also

References

  1. ^ Mondragon, Carlos (1992). "Suspension Capability" (PDF). Cryonics. Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Best, Ben (2008). "A History of Cryonics" (PDF). The Immortalist. Cryonics Institute. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved 2009-08-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-201-56751-2
    .
  4. ^ http://www.alcor.org/Library/pdfs/Darwin_DMSO_glycerol.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ "E x t r o B r i t a n n i A". Archived from the original on 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  6. ^ Kunen, James S. (July 17, 1989). "Reruns Will Keep Sitcom Writer Dick Clair on Ice—indefinitely". People Magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-24.

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