By Danny Sullivan – Longevity. Technology
Dr Jamie Justice on how the $101m competition can deliver a lasting legacy to the longevity field – and it’s not about the prize money.
Yesterday’s launch of XPRIZE Healthspan has kicked off a seven-year, $101 million race to find therapeutics capable of reversing the effects of aging. To many, this may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but huge progress has been made in recent years showing that aging, while clearly a complex, multifactorial process, is a process that can be therapeutically mediated.
