X-Message-Number: 9885 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:28:43 -0700 From: Paul Wakfer <> Subject: Our Lives are Saved! Please excuse the subject line exaggeration :-), because I have great news. The Cryopreservation of Hippocampal Slices project, to be jointly conducted by the Institute for Neural Cryobiology (INC), was today approved in all aspects by the host university medical research institute. This means that lab space, animal care facilities, etc. at that institution and their half of the approximately $150K budget which will pay for salaries and supplies, have been made available to the project which now has the official sponsorship and "sanction" of the research institute. Please note, however, that this does still not mean that we can publicly use their name even as related to INC. Among the few minor changes that they made to the joint agreement was a more all encompassing statement that their name could not be used at all without their written permission in each case. As I have stated before, the success of this project may produce a combination of cryoprotectants and a method of introducing them which when applied to whole brains enables their functionally reversible cryopreservation. With hard work, and perhaps a bit of luck, my subject line may turn out to be little exaggeration after all. This final approval of the project is what I have been waiting for before asking for any more contributions in order that INC can fulfill its obligations under the joint agreement to purchase and provide the bulk of the advanced equipment (and get to retain ownership and future use of that equipment, of course). At this time, we need about $45,000 in additional contributions to finance those purchases. Though many people have done so already (see list below), now is the time for all those people who supported the my efforts to jump-start reverisble cryopreservation research by making pledges, to extend that support as contributors to this enormously important, first real project to arise from those efforts. I know that many of you had hoped to be able to invest in the research work which would be done and I am truly displeased that this has not so far been able to be accomplished in a manner acceptable to most of you. However, I feel certain that any money which you can contribute to this project will be repaid to you manyfold as value of one kind or another. If we can make this initial project into a major success, there may still be a chance for significant portions of the original project ideas to be actualized. Please send all contributions to: The Institute for Neural Cryobiology 8439 White Oak Ave., Suite 110 Rancho Cucamonga, 91730-3860 I remind you again that all contributors will receive an official donation receipt from INC which may be used to reduce their US federal and California state taxable income on their next return. I look forward to hearing from you and receiving your contributions. -- Paul -- Voice/Fax: 909-481-9620 Page: 800-805-2870 The Institute for Neural Cryobiology - http://neurocryo.org Perfected cryopreservation of Central Nervous System tissue for neuroscience research and medical repair of brain diseases List of INC Contributors as of June 9, 1998 Allen Lopp 100 Arthur Naiman 1,000 Ben Best 1,000 Billy Seidel 600 Robert W Krueger 4,000 Bruce Waugh 1,000 Edgar Swank 8,000 James Halperin 2,000 Joe Hovey 1,000 John Bull 1,000 John K Clark 500 John Pietrzak 1,000 Keith Lynch 1,000 Ken Stone 1,000 Ken Wolfe 1,000 Kevin Q Brown 500 Larry Lee 1,000 Leonard Zubkoff 500 Marce Johnson 1,000 Mark Mugler 2,000 Mark Connaughton 2,500 Mike Perry 1,000 Peter Gouras 200 Robin Helweg-Larson 1,000 Robert Poole, Jr 1,000 Roy Yowell 6,500 Thomas Donaldson 1,050 Tim Freeman 1,000 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9885