RAPID

RAPID or Readiness And Procedure Innovation / Deployment is a cryonics research initiative established in 2020 by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Steve Graber, the Director of Innovation of Alcor, presented the RAPID proposal during the 2020 Annual Strategic Board Meeting of Alcor. The RAPID team is developing relationships and contracts to procure recently deceased human cadavers, which are not Alcor members or patients, but are already earmarked for medical research.

The RAPID initiative will support cryonics research in multiple ways. Most immediately, it will help advance research into liquid ventilation – using a patient’s lungs as a heat exchanger to induce very rapid hypothermia. According to Alcor, animal studies alone cannot take LV development to the next level due to different chest anatomy. LV research will include cooling rate control, chest compression studies, and timing and sensor feedback. RAPID will also enable research comparing chemical fixation to perfusion, and will support rewarming studies.

Alcor is requesting donations through GoFundMe to fund research envisioned through the RAPID program. All donors will receive quarterly reports from Alcor regarding the progress with fundraising and milestone achievements rising from the RAPID program.