On August 11th, 2026, XPRIZE announced 20 Finalist Teams advancing in the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan competition, including 10 teams receiving $1 million Milestone 2 Awards to advance the development and clinical testing of potential therapies to improve healthspan.
Several AFAR board members have helped guide this important program. AFAR’s Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, President Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, and Board Member Nir Barzilai, MD, serve as Scientific Advisors to XPRIZE Healthspan. AFAR Board Member Sergey Young is a sponsor of the competition.
Additionally, AFAR Grantee and the 2022 winner of the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research, Jamie L. Justice, PhD, is the Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation and Executive Director of XPRIZE Healthspan.
AFAR is a partner of the XPRIZE Healthspan and manages the XPRIZE Healthspan Longitudinal Data Analysis of Existing Cohorts Awards program, which supports distinct data analyses projects on select cohorts for a data resource network.
Read more on the XPRIZE Healthspan prize here.
