XPRIZE Healthspan Competition Offers $101M for Age-Reversal Therapies

The seven-year competition aims to incentivize the development of therapies that can restore at least 10 years’ worth of muscular function, cognition, and immune function in people aged 65 to 80.

• The XPRIZE Healthspan competition, with a prize purse of $101 million, aims to incentivize the development of therapies that can reverse age-related degradation in cognition, immune system, and muscle function in adults aged 65-80.
• The competition, which is the richest incentive-based technology competition ever created by the XPRIZE foundation, was unveiled at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Teams can already start registering to compete via the XPRIZE Healthspan website. Two years into the program, judges would select up to 40 teams to receive $250,000 progress awards. After three or four years, up to 10 teams would each receive a $1 million award to keep going.
• The grand prize would be paid out by 2030 if key milestones for functional restoration are reached. If one of the teams restores 20 years’ worth of function, that team would be eligible to win $81 million.
• The prize also includes a $10 million bonus for a team able to reverse muscle degradation among patients with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD).

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