Yuri Pichugin
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Yuri Pichugin, Ph.D. is a full-time Russian-born cryobiologist employed by the Cryonics Institute to develop vitrification mixtures, improve perfusion protocol and find formulations to minimize cold ischemia.
Dr. Pichugin was born in Russia (the former USSR), in the city of Tomsk in Siberia.
Both of the two major cryonics organizations, the Cryonics Institute and Alcor Life Extension Foundation, employ full-time Russian cryobiologists. (Alcor's cryobiologist is Dr. Sergey Sheleg).
[edit] Academic background and career
Dr. Pichugin graduated from Tomsk State University (Chemical Faculty, Department of Organic Chemistry) in 1976. In 1978 he moved to Kharkov, in Ukraine where he worked at the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (the largest cryobiology institute in the world).
In 1988 he defended his dissertation: The Dependence of Cytotoxity and Cryoprotective Activity of Diols on their Structure and Physicochemical Properties.
Beginning in January 1999 he worked for the Institute For Neural Cryobiology at the University of California on projects involving cryopreservation of rat hippocampal before becoming Director of Research at the Cryonics Institute in July, 2001.
