Dr. Jamie Justice is the Executive Vice President Health Domain and Executive Director of the $101M Healthspan Prize at the nonprofit XPRIZE Foundation, and adjunct faculty in Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM). Jamie completed graduate and postdoc training at University of Colorado Boulder before joining faculty at WFUSM. Jamie’s scientific work is dedicated to geroscience, an emerging field that seeks to change the way we think about and treat aging, by looking at the biologic root to proactively reduce the incidence of multiple age-related diseases, functional decline, and disability. She was the recipient of the Jarrahi Research Scholars Fund in Geroscience Innovation, the 2022 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research, an NIA Nathan W Shock Awardee, and 2026 Business Insider Rising Star in Longevity.
Dr. Justice’s leadership at XPRIZE uses a competition model to drive capital to innovation and catalyze transformative solutions to optimize health for all, advance personalized approaches, and ignite breakthroughs in biotechnology and biomedicine. She leads the $101M XPRIZE Healthpsan global competition to incentivize teams from around the world to develop and demonstrate innovative therapeutic solutions that make healthy human aging possible. Dr. Justice also leads the design and development of future prizes for breakthroughs in health, including a new in-design program to improve ovarian function and support women’s health across the lifespan, prevent suicide and mental health crises, advance biomarkers for personalized medicine and trials, and champion novel AI-based computing challenges and biotech advancement to support better health outcomes for everyone.