What is Biohackeri?

Biohackeri is a non-profit independent community that aims to improve health and wellbeing through the lens of open self-experimentation and making information available to the public.

We do so by:

  • Teaching: through workshops and events where we dig deep into subjects related to health and wellbeing.

  • Connecting curious people from all disciplines: to tinker around the same projects and collaborate, this includes people in the biotech industry, and entrepreneurs, but also people who are just curious about biology.

  • Self-experimenting: we run experiments individually or as a group and share the outcomes.

  • Hosting events: where guests share their experiences or findings related to self-experimentation, DIY biology and citizen science.

  • Working on different projects from larger scale experiments to DIY biology that involve the public as researchers themselves.

Disclaimer: We are not experts in any medicine, nutrition, or any other domain. Nothing we publish is professional advice or expert advice of any kind, and we hold no liability or responsibility for how it is used or perceived. Read our code of ethics for more information on how we manage all the risks involved.

Patricia Cowings astronaut who studied and trained her own psycho-physiological response for spaceflight. (source: Nasa)

Norman Thagard self-experimenting aboard the Space Shuttle. He conducted physiological experiments on personnel during the STS-7 mission (source: wikipedia)

Norman Thagard self-experimenting aboard the Space Shuttle. He conducted physiological experiments on personnel during the STS-7 mission (source: wikipedia)

Meet our Board Members

  • Milana Faltin

    Events and Community

  • Ismail Elouafiq

    Ismail Elouafiq

    Chairman

  • Xuelong Fan

    Experiment Protocols and Publications

  • Polina Tersh

    Support with Community and Marketing

  • Eric Orlowski

    Eric Orlowski

    Reviewer of Ethics

Active Supporting Members

  • Gal Horowitz

    Reviewer of Projects

  • Johan Snider

    Videography and Teaching support

  • Adam Horowitz

    Reviewer of Design and Admin

What is Biohacking?

Bio-hacking in general means understanding some aspect of biology and affecting it to get some desired result.
This is very similar to computer hacking, where the hacker uses their knowledge in technology to achieve a goal.

Biohackers are people that enjoy the challenge of understanding biological systems through experimentation:

  • Sometimes they focus on Health, quantified-self and self-experimentation: experimenting with nutrition, supplements, exercise etc.

  • Or on Synthetic biology: that could go from making yogurt to nanosensing.

Members of Biohackeri are people that are curious, critical thinkers. They are usually interested in improving their own health, and performing well every day. And enjoy the challenge of learning about biological systems through experimentation.