{
  "id": 2137357,
  "title": "Jamie Justice Is Running a $101 Million Longevity Science Fair",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/jamie-justice-is-running-a-101-million-longevity-science-fair",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-20T13:01:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Time",
    "slug": "time",
    "url": "https://time.com/collection/longevity-leaders/2026/jamie-justice/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Jamie Justice, the executive director of the XPRIZE Healthspan competition, oversees a global science fair dedicated to longevity science. Justice, a gerontology researcher, has been working with a team of over a dozen judges to review submissions from the world's top scientific minds. In July, the judges narrowed down the submissions to 10 teams, giving each $1 million to begin advanced testing of their ideas over the next four years. Justice became interested in the scientific process after studying endurance athletes during her graduate school years and then shifted her focus to aging and why the body starts to break down. She decided that aging is not just one disease, and the goal was to quantify it and find ways to measure it. Justice led a gerontology lab at Wake Forest University before being recruited to lead XPRIZE Healthspan, which was created in 2023 by tech entrepreneur and physician Peter Diamandis. XPRIZE Healthspan aims to understand the various approaches to living better while living longer, attracting attention from scientists and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on supplements, infusions, and services. Ten finalists from countries like China, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. were chosen, each working on strategies to reduce the impact of aging on muscle, brain, and immune function by at least 10 years. The finalists are exploring various methods, including repurposed drugs, novel compounds, and stem cell-derived approaches that have met XPRIZE's strict criteria of having early scientific data demonstrating their impact on extending lives in both animals and humans. Justice emphasizes that the competition is not a popularity contest and that the ideas presented are not necessarily traditional or expected. Now, the teams will continue to test and refine their strategies, competing for the $81 million grand prize, which will be awarded to the team with the strongest clinical benefits in improving muscle, immune, and cognitive functions.",
  "summary": "Justice, executive director of XPRIZE Healthspan, wants teams to prove human aging can be measurably reversed, not just slowed.",
  "key_points": [
    "Jamie Justice leads $101M XPRIZE Healthspan longevity science fair",
    "10 teams narrowed down from global submissions, each receives $1M",
    "Finalists work on reducing aging impact on muscle, brain, immune function"
  ],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}