Klaus Sames

Dr Klaus Hermann Sames has studied medicine in Erlangen and Mainz. He retired from the University of Hamburg, where he had specialized in anatomy and experimental biogerontology, in 2007. He has also worked as extraordinary professor of anatomy an experimental biogerontology at the anatomical institutes of the universities in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Zurich.

Sames has been a member of the German Anatomical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences; he is also an honorary member of the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, founding Chairman of the German Society of Applied Biostasis, and honorary chairman of the Ulm Cryonics Project as well as scientific adviser of Cryonics Institute in Michigan.

 His publications include The Role of Proteoglycans and Gglycosaminoglycans in Aging (Karger 1994), Sterblich durch ein Gesetz der Natur? (Frieling 2000), Kryokonservierung: Zukünftige Perspektiven von Organtransplantation bis Kryonik (Springer 2022), Medizinische Regeneration und Tissue Engineering (editor; Ecomed 2000), Applied Cryobiology: Human Biostasis (editor; ibidem 2013), Cryopreservation and Life Span Extension (editor; ibidem 2018), Erfolgreiches Altern (co-editor; Huber 1989), Kompendium der Gerontology (co-editor; Ecomed 1994); Extending the Life Span (co-editor; LIT Verlag 2005).

His papers have been published by, among other outlets, in Archives of Toxicology, European Journal of Cell Biology, The Faseb Journal, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Mechanisms in Aging and Development.