Alcor Life Extension Foundation

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation or just Alcor is an American nonprofit organization that conducts cryopreservations and cryonics research. Its facility currently located in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, the current president and CEO is Patrick Harris. Alcor publishes the Cryonics magazine.

Alcor was founded by Fred and Linda Chamberlain as the Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia in California in 1972. It was named after Alcor, a star that had just the right brightness that it was used as a test for clear vision. Alcor moved from Fullerton, California to Riverside, California in 1987, and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1994.

As of May 2021, Alcor had cryopreserved their 182th patient. As of June 2021, Alcor had 1,353 members who had signed up for cryopreservation arrangements.