X-Message-Number: 22867 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:16:18 -0800 (PST) From: cryofan andrew <> Subject: Research in Russia --0-813532517-1069107378=:66354 Dear Cryoneters, Speaking about research in Russia it s just been announced today in the Russian press that a 35-year old Russian Aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who graduated with honors from the Department of Physics of the Moscow State University and is worth US$1,5 billion according to the Forbes magazine, is financing a project called by the Russian press the Elixir of Immortality with the Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology of the Moscow State University. He just gave the Institute US$ 120,000 for the first six months of the project, which is expected to cost US$ 600,000 for the next 5 years. A member of the Russian Academy of Science Vladimir Skulachev is personally overseeing the project. (http://www.kp.ru/daily/23158/24704/ for those who read Russian) Apparently it is a research to stop programmed cell death. I say, Oleg, if you are worth US$ 1.5 bln you can sure do a lot better than the US$ 120,000. Why not start a cryonics research firm. I guess we have to wait 5 years to see what happens. Regards, Andre Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard --0-813532517-1069107378=:66354 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22867