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Note: The following is my personal opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the views of my colleagues at BPF. I am a futurist, not a neuroscientist. Any mistakes here are my own. Please point [...]

Paul Spiegel, J.D., is an attorney in private practice.  His firm, Eclectic Law, provides general counsel services to startups and established companies in biotechnology and other fields.  Paul [...]

Francesca Minerva is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ghent. Her research focuses on medical ethics, bioethics, and discrimination, applied philosophy, and philosophy of death. She has [...]

Alicia Smallwood graduated from DePauw University in 2012 with degrees in psychology and music. Since then she has worked as a clinical research coordinator in breast cancer epidemiology at the [...]

Saar Wilf is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded over ten technology startups, including Fraud Sciences, acquired by eBay’s PayPal for US $169 million in 2008, Trivnet, [...]

Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, Ph.D., is an award-winning scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of Gemedy and holds academic appointments [...]

Author: BPF Co-Founder, John Smart BPF advisor Dr. Susan Blackmore recently wrote a thoughtful and insightful opinion piece, Brain preservation is a step closer, but how could it ever be [...]

Reanimators, Uploaders and Uncertains — Which Are You? Take the Test, and See Where You Stand on the “Copy Problem” The first in a multi-author series on brain [...]

Mallory Tackett has a Bachelor’s in Physics, with a background in programming and machine learning. She is currently a student at SMU, studying data science. Mallory’s research [...]

Richard Doyle, PhD., is Professor of English and Liberal Arts at Penn State University. He also has appointments in Science Technology & Society and the College of Information Science and [...]