I'm Emil. I'm the founder of Tomorrow Bio, a cryopreservation provider. By training, I'm a doctor, but have been working as an entrepreneur for many, many years. And since around 2020, I'm now running Tomorrow Bio, the first European cryopreservation.
Now also in the US, basically the idea behind the organization is that if longevity development takes longer than you might say, which of course I believe then cryopreservation is a stopgap measure that gets you to the time longevity interventions become
Why should organizations become Vitalist?
So this whole vitalism movement is a helpful group, a helpful network, a helpful community to advocate, to engage with other people, to bring this topic of a, I would say, more realistic logic, a bit more of the mainstream. Of course not mainstream in regards to billions and millions of people, but at least initially, a good group to engage with.
Do you think we are on track to solve aging in your lifetime, given current resourcing?
Unfortunately, I think there's almost no chance. I mean, I wouldn't work on cryopreservation if I would see relevant chance here. Of course, there's a non -zero chance. It's always possible. The game has totally changed. Closely, how it did over the last, well, one of the reasons why I switched to cryo -tide, I come from cancer research, so that was here, where it's the archetypical example of a field that every 10 years... The prediction of progress is usually much more optimistic. Unfortunately, I think that everybody needs to be cryopreserved for a while until the more, you know, until aging can be, which in fundamentally just a matter of time and complexity. So for the time being, I think it's very, very important that try for the standard path, which unfortunately I think... Okay, cool. So now just a bit more about tomorrow's bio and milestones.
What are some of the key milestones or achievements TomorrowBio has reached so far, and what are your organization’s goals and plans for the next 5-10 years?
Tomorrow Bio by now is the fastest growing cryopreservation organization in the world and in fact I think it's the fastest growing organization ever. We're now actively on the ground with medical teams in Europe and the US. We have long -term storage in Switzerland.
Our technology is what is called whole body field cryoprotection. So far to my understanding, it is an approach, not necessarily unique in regards to that in every lab, but it's definitely an approach from a quality standpoint.
We have pure online sign -up, we have life insurance partners. So basically everything is packaged to make it as easy as possible and then provides the highest possible preservation quality, most secure and most stable long -term storage. So that's what we've been doing so far and over the next couple of years, well as I said, we're currently active in Europe and in the US. Of course, we're planning to expand globally over time, currently just restricting ourselves to be able to provide great quality. Of course, as I said, we're the fastest growing organization right now, but in absolute terms, there's still tremendous growth that needs to happen to move forward and over the next 5 to 10 years. the scientific frontier forward significantly, make sure that quality of preservation gets better and better and better.
If you had unlimited resources, what dream project would you embark on to advance the field of longevity?
So if it's really unlimited resources, let's say for argument's sake a couple of trillion, then I would probably go back to I would prioritize cryo -preservation and other adjacent topics first to make sure they're really, really good. But with literally unlimited money, I think you can, you know, I would start universities, really build this network or build this community from the ground up. Every country gets a couple universities, very well funded, you know, private universities, but all scholarships to create the next generation of... of longevity and researchers and then start institutes and so on. But of course all of that is unfortunately a pipe dream because none of that works with a couple of buildings, right? Here, you know, I'm taking the question literally. It needs to literally be unlimited resources to give this a shot. All right, so the last but not least, the most important question.
How long do you want to live?
Definitely indefinite. So indefinite. I think forever is also a very, very long time, right? And it's also, it's just a slightly less scary thought than dying. You know, trillions and trillions and trillions of years is also a very long time. But you know, if after one trillion I decide that another trillion is great, then you know, that should be, I think, my goal. So to give a precise answer, I think the best answer is, I always would like to have the choice to say, this choice should never go away. And of course, that's far in the future, but from a theoretical or from a moral standpoint.
