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The Startup Freezing Humans For Tomorrow — Interview with Dr Emil Kendziorra, CEO of Tomorrow.bio

Join us for a deep-dive conversation with Dr Emil Kendziorra, CEO of Tomorrow.bio, as we explore the cutting edge of cryopreservation and medical biostasis.

Dr Kendziorra, who began his career in cancer research with a summa cum laude degree from the University of Göttingen, shares his remarkable journey from academic science to entrepreneurship, and ultimately to founding Tomorrow.bio — a company he considers his life’s work.

In this interview, he discusses the motivations behind his pivot from traditional longevity research to the frontier of cryomedicine, the operational and emotional lessons learned from cryopreserving over 20 human patients and 10 pets, and his vision for making this technology more accessible in the future.

Tomorrow.bio stands as Europe’s fastest-growing cryopreservation company, with over 800 members across 200+ cities and 45+ countries. The company offers both whole-body cryopreservation and brain-only preservation, using a transparent pricing model designed for long-term value.

With a recent €5 million Seed round and a mission to advance medical biostasis, Emil discusses the unique challenges and opportunities of operating in this space, the ethical considerations of a technology that may not achieve revival for decades, and his long-term vision for the field.

Key Points.

A man with terminal glioblastoma was given 12–15 months to live

After four injections of a therapy called Anktiva, his latest scan came back normal.

The treatment has been studied for more than a decade and has shown promise across multiple cancer types, yet it’s only approved for a narrow form of bladder cancer.

Should potentially life-saving treatments move through the approval process faster for patients with no other options?

Age-Related ‘Unraveling’ of DNA May Be Reversible, Study Suggests

The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn’t mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in stone.

One of the more intriguing ideas in aging research is that growing old isn’t just a matter of damage accumulating over the years.

It may also be a story of lost information – the gradual breakdown of the molecular instructions that tell cells which genes to use and which to keep quiet.

Multifold increase in spinal inhibitory cell types with emergence of limb movement

Frog metamorphosis reveals how spinal circuits adapt to new motor demands. Vijatovic et al. demonstrate that the shift from tail-to limb-based locomotion coincides with expansion and diversification of V1 inhibitory neurons. Cross-species comparisons identify a conserved blueprint of tail and limb locomotion, with Engrailed-1 a global regulator of movement frequency.

Scientists say they’ve reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a nasal spray that appears to reverse brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring the brain’s energy systems. After just two doses, memory and cognitive function improved for months, raising hopes for future treatments targeting dementia and brain fog.

Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteration 1,000 times faster than traditional PCB

A startup called Itera has patented a technique to make liquid metal alloys flow and form the traces on PCBs.

Ann Cavoukian: We have to protect privacy globally or we protect it nowhere!

I recorded this interview 13 years ago.

It should feel dated by now. It doesn’t. It feels like a prophecy.

Back in 2013, Dr. Ann Cavoukian sat down with me as the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and the mind behind Privacy by Design. She told me privacy was not dead. She told me security and freedom were not a trade-off. She told me metadata reveals more about you than the content ever could.

Then she said something I have never been able to shake:

“We have to protect privacy globally, or we protect it nowhere.”

Think about where we are now. Surveillance is the business model. Your data trains systems you will never see. The “nothing to hide” crowd got louder, and the borders she warned about got thinner. She saw all of it coming.

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