Dante Brunol

Mario Dante Bruno-Lena (known as Dante Brunol; died in January 1978) was an Italian biophysicist (Ph.D.), M.D., and surgeon living in the United States. Born in Northern Italy, he devised the first protocol for cryopreserving a human being with the hope of eventual revival ("The Method for Freezing Humans"). He participated in James Bedford's cryopreservation in January 1967 and Marie Phelps-Sweet's cryopreservation in August-September 1967.

Sometime between 1966 and 1967, Robert Ettinger asked Brunol to produce a formal, written protocol for cryopreserving cryonics patients. Due to technical difficulties only a crude approximation of the protocol was actually used in the case of Bedford. At the time of the cryopreservation of Bedford it appears he was employed at the University of Southern California near where the preservation took place. Apparently he lost his position briefly as a result of his involvement, but soon regained it (some details are unclear).

He died in his native Italy in January 1978, at age 51, and was not cryopreserved.