The Italian neurosurgeon
#Sergio #Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen.

His idea?

⚠️Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto a younger, healthier body.

Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses.

But he never convinced skeptics that his technique could succeed
—or to believe his claim that a procedure on a live person was imminent.

The Chicago Tribune labeled him the “P.T. Barnum of transplantation.”

Canavero withdrew from the spotlight.

But the idea of head transplants isn’t going away.

Instead, he says, the concept has recently been getting a fresh look from life-extension enthusiasts and stealth Silicon Valley startups
-- Because no other solution to aging is on the horizon.

“It’s become absolutely clear over the past years that the idea of some incredible tech to rejuvenate elderly people
—­happening in some secret lab, like Google
—is really going nowhere,” he says.

💥“You have to go for the whole shebang"

Combining the necessary technologies,
like reliably precise surgical robots and artificial wombs to grow the clones,
is going to be complex and very, very expensive.

Canavero lacks the funds to take his plans further,
but he believes “the money is out there” for a commercial moonshot project:

“What I say to the billionaires is
‘Come together.’
You will all have your own share,
plus make yourselves immortal.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/02/1129416/head-transplant-surgeon-sergio-canavero-future-job/