Research - Biostasis Research Institute

Establishing twin research centers on the vanguard of biostasis research

The Biostasis Research Institute will fund the establishment of two new academic research centers dedicated to the cryopreservation of living organs, tissues, and organisms – a first in U.S. history. These two centers will work in tight coordination with each other and a network of other institutions, clinicians and researchers.

The Center for biostasis at Massachusetts General Hospital

which will create and apply new technologies to control ice formation at sub-freezing temperatures and condition human organs to undergo extreme temperature changes. The center will be housed at the largest Harvard-affiliated research hospital and led by Drs. Mehmet Toner, Korkut Uygun, and Shannon Tessier.

THE ORGAN AND TISSUE PRESERVATION CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

which will focus on technologies to safely and rapidly rewarm cryopreserved organs and other living systems. This center will be housed within the University of Minnesota Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) and will be led by the IEM Director, Dr. John Bischof, and Department of Surgery faculty member, Dr. Erik Finger.