Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a pioneer in the field of life extension. He died at age 79 of respiratory failure as a complication of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was a leading advocate of calorie restriction as a method of life extension and health improvement.

Oz Garcia is a nutritional counselor and life extension specialist, businessman, and author. Garcia is CEO of the health and well-being consulting firm Personal Best Inc. which specializes in progressive nutrition and anti-aging treatments. Oz is also the founder of The Longevity Lounge, a clinical anti-aging destination. He is also the author of "The Balance" and "The Healthy HighTech Body", …

Terry Grossman is an author and medical director of the Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado. He is a strong proponent of human life extension, and is also on the board of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He authored "The Baby Boomers' Guide to Living Forever" and co-authored "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever".

Saul Kent has been a member of the Alcor Board for five years. In 1965, he was one of the founders of the first cryonics organization, the Cryonics Society of New York. Kent is CEO of Suspended Animation, a research company in Boynton Beach, Florida that offers cryonics services to members of cryonics organizations. Kent is co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation, a non-profit organization in Ft.

Leonard Hayflick (born in 1928), Ph.D., is Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and was Professor of Medical Microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America and was a founding member of the council of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The recipient of several research prizes and awards, including the 1991 Sandoz Prize for Gerontological Research, …

Julian Whitaker , MD, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Emory University Medical School in Atlanta, Georgia. Since opening the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California, in 1979, he and his staff have successfully treated approximately 40,000 patients with his unique program of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and noninvasive therapies.

Ben Best is President/CEO of the Cryonics Institute, the world's second largest cryonics organization. He is a well-known activist in cryonics and life extension advocacy. Best holds undergraduate degrees in pharmacy from the University of British Columbia, and physics and computing science (BSc), and finance (BBA) from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest.

Robert Bradbury is a transhumanist who is known for inventing the concept of the Matrioshka Brain. He graduated in applied mathematics in Harvard and microbiology from the University of Washington. He currently works in the field of life extension.

John Sperling (born 1921) is a US billionaire who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL). John Sperling received his undergraduate education at Reed College, Oregon, a master's from the University of California, Berkeley under the G.I. Bill, …

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness. He is known for his iconoclastic ideas, and is interested in what he sees as the breakdown of the paradigm that posits science and the humanities as separate disciplines, …

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov") (June 9, 1829-December 28, 1903) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and philosophy of Transhumanism. Fyodorov advocated radical life extension using scientific methods, human immortality and resurrection of dead people

Duncan Pflaster is an American Off-Off-Broadway playwright, composer and actor. He was born in 1973. His first play "Wilder and Wilder" (a transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, was produced in 1995 at Florida Playwrights' Theatre in Hollywood, FL. He now lives in New York, where many of his plays have been produced in theater festivals, such as the Spotlight On festival and the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Steven V. Joyal , MD is Vice President of Scientific and Medical Affairs at the Life Extension Foundation, Inc. , which is dedicated to extending and enhancing human life. Prior to joining Life Extension Dr. Joyal worked at Abbott Labs/ Knoll Pharmaceutical Company on Meridia®, one of only two FDA-approved long-term weight loss medications, and then at Bristol-Myers Squibb in global clinical cardiovascular-metabolic drug development including obesity, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia.