Brain Preservation Foundation

The Brain Preservation Foundation is an American non-profit organization with the goal of promoting validated scientific research and technical services development in the field of whole brain preservation for long-term static storage, as well as working on the accessibility, affordability, and sustainability of this technology.^[3] It also provides public education on topics such as the neural foundations of memory, brain scanning techniques, brain preservation, and mind uploading.

Brain Preservation Foundation

Founded	27 August 2010 (2010-08-27)[1]
Founder	Kenneth Hayworth and John Smart[2]
Type	United States IRS exemption status: 501(c)(3), ruling year 2010[1]
Focus	Brain preservation
Area served	Global
Key people	President Kenneth Hayworth[2]
Website	www.brainpreservation.org

Prizes

In 2010, the Brain Preservation Foundation launched an inducement prize contest with the goal of improving the long-run preservation of human brains. The purpose of preserving a human brain is to allow the mind uploading of the preserved brain's long-term memories if the technology becomes available to do so in the long-run future.^[4] The requirements of the Brain Preservation Technology Prize stated that the connectome of a brain had to be preserved in a way that would allow for long-term storage (>100 years).^[5]

On February 9, 2016, the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize was officially won by the cryobiology research company 21st Century Medicine.^[6] On March 13, 2018, the Large Mammal Brain Preservation Prize was officially won, again by 21st Century Medicine.^[7]

See also

• Cryonics
• 21st Century Medicine
• Information-theoretic death