The following four ImmInst Full Members have successful been voted to fill the four open ImmInst Board seats. They now have the option to hold their seats for a two year term.
Each year in January, ImmInst holds elections for Board seats. Nominations for next year's election will start Jan 1 and end Jan 8, 2005. There are three board seats opening up next year (Bruce J. Klein, Susan Fonseca-Klein and Michael Anissimov). One has only to be a ImmInst Full Member in order to run for a seat.
For a listing of all current ImmInst Leaders, click here.
ImmInst Board Election Results
2004 - 2006 Board Members
Congratulations to...
Perrott, Kevin - Kevin is a successful businessman turned student working in the field of bioinformatics at the University of Alberta. He hopes to add in some measure towards the awakening of humanity to the fact that evolution's mandatory death sentence is no longer a certainty. Kevin attended the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology 10th Congress Sept 2003 at Queens College in Cambridge, UK.
Reason - Reason is founder of The Longevity Meme, a California-based non-profit organization, founded in mid-2001. Its goal is to encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality.
Sethe, Sebastian (caliban) - Sebastian is a research student at the University of Sheffield (Department of Law) and also works as a research assistant for the Sheffield Institute for Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE). He has a MA in Biotechnological Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield. His interests include a wide spectrum of topics in biotechnological law, management and philosophy. His specialty is in advising on law and ethics relating to life extension. Sebastian is ImmInst's Germany Regional Forum contact.
Sills, Kenneth X. (Lazarus Long) - Ken is a long-time advocate for the possibility of extreme life extension. A writer, philosopher and educator, Ken is a bi-lingual polymath. He contributes extensively to the forums and is available as a speaker. Ken presented 'Why Physical Immortality' on behalf of ImmInst during the TransVision 2003 Conference at Yale and wrote a Review of TransVision 2003.