X-Message-Number: 11256
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:27:54 -0500
From: Saul Kent <>
Subject: Reply To Donaldson

        In msg. #11242, Thomas Donaldson asked me to comment on the
following:  

        >  Since 21st Century Medicine is doing such research, we need  

>  ways to provide more funding for 21st Century Medicine, directed not at
the  

>  preservation of kidneys but at the preservation of brains. I would like
to hear  

>  more from Saul Kent on what is possible here.  

        To some extent, it may become possible to invest money in 21st  

Century Medicine (21CM) specifically directed at brain cryopreservation,
rather than the preservation of other organs and tissues.  However, this
will only become possible after we cover a number of costs required for
the continued progress of 21CM's research program as a whole.  Examples of
such costs are the construc- tion of animal care facilities, the
acquisition of the commercial rights to valuable  

intellectual property, the hiring of additional personnel, and the
purchase of  

additional equipment.  

        We're also pursuing the possibility of funding brain
cryopreservation research in part through revenues from products developed
from the brain  

research itself.  

 

        In any case, one of 21CM's in-house research projects will
definitely be brain cryopreservation.  We will be able to do so because
most of the company's research into the cryopreservation of biologic
systems with short-term commercial potential will be conducted by
researchers at outside laboratories, with whom we are collaborating.  

---Saul Kent, CEO 21st Century Medicine  

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