Honored to be named one of TIME's 2026 Longevity Leaders! Leading @XPRIZE Healthspan means chasing big questions: How do we measure aging? Slow it? Separate real science from hype? The work is just beginning. Thanks @TIME & @AlicePark 👇 #XPRIZEHealthspan#

#XPRIZEHealthspan# is proud to have Edifice Health as our official testing partner! 🩺 @EdificeHealth is bringing iAge®, its validated measure of inflammatory age, to support the discovery of healthier aging. Learn more:

Honored to be included in @TIME list of "Longevity Leaders 2026" Especially happy to see that 6/12 of these are active members of the Academy of Geroscience @aogscience. “We need to distinguish ourselves from all the noise,” Barzilai says. “It’s become important to have the word ‘science’ in there.”

Forget Blue Zones. Japan has a Green Zone 🍵 Okinawa was the original Blue Zone, the place the entire longevity industry obsessed over. But Japan's #1# prefecture for HEALTHY life expectancy today? Shizuoka. Green tea capital of Japan. Birthplace of wasabi, 400 years ago. Coincidence? Build with Japan podcast by @coral_capital ft @HayanoMotoshi @j_n_justice

(1/2) Can we build a regulatory pathway for drugs that target aging itself? #XPRIZEHealthspan’s# @J_N_Justice, PhD joined @ReaganUdall and @ARPA_H PROSPR to discuss this. XPRIZE Healthspan Finalists will generate the human data regulators need. Read more.

The healthspan revolution is gaining momentum. How do we harness it without compromising on evidence? Vote to send @J_N_Justice, PhD to #SXSW# to explore what it takes to turn promise into proven, accessible solutions for healthy aging. Vote by Aug. 23:

XPRIZE Healthspan names 20 finalists Ten teams receive $1m awards as the $101m competition moves from therapeutic promise towards coordinated human trials. @LongevityTech | @xprize | By @TinkingGumbel

Loved welcoming @xprize @j_n_justice @PeterDiamandis @UCSDHealthAging @UCSDHealthSci to @UUtah to celebrate the top named finalists in the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan challenge. Our Utah Data Coordinating Center — led by Dr. Kevin Watt and Dr. Amy Goodman — is partnering with UC San Diego and XPRIZE to provide clinical trials support and data analytics for the competition, helping usher in a new era of breakthroughs in healthspan: the science of healthier living as we age. Congrats to the finalists — your work inspires us all! 🧬

Congratulations to XPRIZE CEO @AnoushehAnsari on being named to @Forbes’ 2026 50 Over 50: Impact list! 🚀 Her leadership continues to push bold ideas forward and inspire a future shaped by innovation and impact. See the list here:

Just back from hosting the XPRIZE $101 Million Healthspan Finalists Awards* and here are my thoughts on a 2026 highlight: 1. The @xprize judges selected an incredible line up of startups that really demonstrated what it'll take to add 10-20+ years of healthy lifespan to everyone's life. To get to that goal, the needle has to be considerably moved so it was great to see gene therapy, iPSC, and galectin-3 inhibition teams all making the top 10! 2. The sheer diversity of focus areas of the teams is exciting but it seems that most will eventually move towards a multimodal approach (caveat, some are very confident their approach will individually win). What that means is combining focus areas together. For example NYC Vita, a group of investigators from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have taken an approach of combining low-dose rapamycin, spermidine supplementation and structured HIIT & resistance exercise. More on rapamycin from Miriam Merad, in our Xprize special. We will likely see a lot of cross-collaboration as well and partnerships forming between finalists. Will we see a gene therapy startup partner up with nutraceuticals startup? Or possibly a research institution partnering with listed company or AgelessRx which has the scale. 4. @PeterDiamandis is right when he talks about the importance of competition in galvanizing teams to create stretch goals for themselves. Many of the teams would not have pushed themselves to get into trials if it wasn’t for XPrize's criteria. There are some in the longevity space that say there needs to be a Manhattan Project effort to address aging, and I believe this XPrize can be that or a catalyst for it. Excited to be releasing a 2 hour Xprize special on The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast next week featuring @j_n_justice, Peter Diamandis and 8 of the finalists, including Bruno Balen, David A. Brown, Walter Patterson, @MiriamMerad , and many more. Follow along for more. Finally, a big thanks to Jamie, Peter, Crystal, Sam and the Xprize team for inviting me. *For context, there are now 20 finalists. 10 of those were awarded a million dollar Milestone 2 award. All teams now must complete clinical trials by the end of 2029 and a winner will be announced in 2030. Other teams can still theoretically enter…

Extremely proud of the 20 finalist teams that have advanced in the $101 million @XPRIZE Healthspan competition! These teams are working around the clock to develop treatments aimed at slowing age-related decline. Cheers!

What if medicine treated aging itself—cutting chronic disease, lowering costs, and extending healthy years? That's the vision behind ARPA-H's PROSPR program — and it requires science and smart regulatory frameworks to get there. A new @reaganudall report with ARPA-H and @xprize Healthspan maps the path forward. Read the summary 👉

(1/2) Tomorrow, Aug. 11, we take a closer look at what’s possible for healthier aging. 🩺 Join us virtually for the #XPRIZEHealthspan# Finalists Awards Ceremony as we celebrate the teams advancing innovation across the healthspan field. 🗓️Aug. 11 | 5 PM PT 📺

Very excited to be heading to Salt Lake City to host today’s XPRIZE Healthspan Awards. I'll be announcing the 10 finalists alongside the incredible @j_n_justice Justice, and @PeterDiamandis . For those that are yet to hear about @xprize Healthspan, it is a $101M competition challenging teams to develop therapeutic solutions that restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function by a minimum of 10 years (with a goal of 20), aiming to help people live not just longer lives, but healthier ones If you're not joining us in Salt Lake, you can follow along on the live stream here at 5pm PST / 8pm EST (1am BST / 2am CET for you night owls in the UK / Europe):

Huge! @XPRIZE has revealed the Finalist Teams in the #XPRIZEHealthspan# competition! Selected through rigorous scientific evaluation, these innovators will move into coordinated clinical trials to advance the future of healthy aging. Meet the Finalists.