Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute

The Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute or just Yinfeng is a cryonics research / cryopatient storage facility in Jinan, Shandong, China. It was founded in 2015, and it is a division of Yinfeng Biological Group. The institute cryopreserves cells, tissues, people, and animals, including dogs. The institute cooperates closely with the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Foundation that funds the institute.

Background
Yinfeng Group was founded in 1999. Yinfeng Biological Group, a division of Yinfeng Group, was founded in 2011. The Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute (founded in 2015) is a division of the Yinfeng Biological Group. Yinfeng Biological Group's work includes DNA testing, cord blood storage, aesthetic medicine and stem cell research.

Before the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute was established, people from Yinfeng Biological Group contacted KrioRus, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, and the Cryonics Institute. Valeriya Udalova from KrioRus visited Yinfeng in October 2013. In April 2014, Yinfeng visited KrioRus in Russia.

In July 2015, Yinfeng visited Alcor and CI in the United States. Alcor had cryopreserved Du Hong, a Chinese woman, about a month earlier. In 2015, Alcor employees Aaron Drake and José Kanshepolsky also visited Yinfeng. Drake, who had worked for Alcor since 2009, helped to set up the Yinfeng cryonics institute. Since April 2016, he has worked as the Director of Research and Chief Specialist at Yinfeng.

Activities
The Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute cooperates with Chinese hospitals and universities to conduct research in the field of cryobiology.

As of March 2020, the institute had cryopreserved eight people. As of October 2020, the institute had cryopreserved ten people. They all are whole-body patients, and most of the cases are confidential. Their first patient was Zhan Wenlian who was cryopreserved in May 2017. In June 2018, they cryopreserved Liu Aihui.

As of the end of October 2018, nearly 50 people had signed up to be cryopreserved at Yinfeng. As of October 2020, about 60 people had signed up.