Ben Best holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSc Pharm) from the University of British Columbia. He also earned a BSc in Physics and Computing Science, as well as a BBA in Accounting and Finance, both from Simon Fraser University. He received Professional Registered Parliamentarian certification from the National Association of Parliamentarians.
He has received Instructor certification from the Canadian Red Cross and from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario. He is a Lifetime Member of American Mensa.
Best taught computer programming courses at colleges and universities in Canada and worked as a Senior Programmer Analyst for Scotiabank in Toronto.
He served as President of the Cryonics Society of Canada for most of the 1990s, helping to incorporate the organization. In 2001, he became President of the Society for Neural Cryobiology, where he helped complete the first vitrification of hippocampal slices.
From 2003 to 2012, Best was President and CEO of the Cryonics Institute. He authored the paper Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice and Cryoprotectant Toxicity: Facts, Issues, and Questions.
Since 2012, Best has been Director of Research Oversight for the Biomedical Research & Longevity Society (BRLS, formerly Life Extension Foundation), which funds research organizations including 21st Century Medicine, Critical Care Research, Suspended Animation, and Advanced Neural Biosciences. In his work with BRLS, Best has attended numerous conferences and written summaries for Life Extension magazine.
