 Valeria Udalova, Danila Medvedev and Igor Artyukhov are among the nine founders of the company listed at its inception.In 2010, the number of KrioRus founders' has increased to 10, and in 2016 it is at 11.The KrioRus research team is headed by cryobiologist Yuri Pichugin, PhD, who has spent time from 2001 to 2007 working in Cryonics Institute (USA, Detroit).