Dr. Jamie Justice, Ph.D., - Executive Vice President, Health, XPRIZE Foundation - A 7-year, $101 Million Global Competition To Revolutionize The Way We Approach Human Aging

Dr. Jamie Justice, Ph.D. ( https://www.xprize.org/about/people/jamie-justice-ph-d ) is the Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation, where she leads international networks to drive innovative solutions to improve human health and aging that is affordable and accessible to all. She also serves as Adjunct Professor in Internal Medicine Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, and Sticht Center on Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM). Dr. Justice is dedicated to Geroscience research that advances the hypothesis that by targeting the basic biology of aging the incidence of multiple age-related diseases can be delayed or prevented and her training background at University of Colorado Boulder and WFUSM allowed her to lead translational research and clinical trials networks to test the Geroscience hypothesis in humans. At WFUSM, Dr. Justice was director of the Biogerontology Lab, and co-leader of the Integrative Biology Core (IBC) of the WF Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) and was a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Aging-supported Geroscience Education and Training Network, an engaged member of the Translational Geroscience Network, Gerontological Society of America’s ESPO scientific section officer and executive committee member from 2018-2021. She is the recipient of the Jarrahi Research Scholars Fund in Geroscience Innovation, the 2022 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research, and the 2022 NIA Nathan W Shock Awardee. Dr. Justice received her Ph.D. and postdoc at University of Colorado Boulder and second postdoc at Wake Forest School of Medicine where she gained a translational research background (mice, human and nonhuman primate), studying interventions with potential to prevent, delay, or treat age-related functional decline and chronic diseases. XPRIZE Healthspan - https://www.xprize.org/prizes/healthspan XPRIZE Healthspan Preliminary Competition Guidelines - https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/15509c25-6198-4104-b7e3-3f6528e7d43a/XPRIZE%20Healthspan%20Preliminary%20Competition%20Guidelines_V1.0.pdf 

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