XPRIZE Healthspan is a bold $101 million, 7-year global competition designed to revolutionize how we address human aging and health. Since its launch in November 2023, over 445 teams across 53 countries have pre-registered for the competition–and we’re just getting started.   

This global competition presents a challenge to experts in biotechnology, academic investors, research networks, those within and beyond the field of aging and geroscience, and innovators across the globe: drive new science and create a future where healthy aging is made possible for everyone. Teams will develop innovative and sustainable therapeutic treatments that can restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function by at least 10 years in individuals aged 50-80 in one year (or less). 

An additional $10 million prize will be awarded to the team that can create a therapeutic treatment that restores muscle function in individuals with stable Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD), a genetic muscle disease that currently has no cure. 

Success could create a world where every single person on earth benefits from the ability to enjoy longer, healthier lives, bringing more time with family and friends, opportunities for continued learning, second or third careers, and fulfilled bucket lists.

Primary registration for the $101M XPRIZE Healthspan global competition and the $10M FSHD Bonus Prize is now open. Register a team today at xprize.org/healthspan and check out our updated Resources page for instructional guidance around Qualifying Submissions due by 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST December 20, 2024.

Here’s to a future where healthy aging is made possible for everyone.

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XPRIZE Healthspan is offered with support from Co-Title Sponsors Hevolution Foundation and Chip Wilson, founder and chairman of SOLVE FSHD, in addition to contributions from benefactors including Christian Angermayer, Carl B. Barney, the Blundy Family, Kas Bordier, Peter H. Diamandis, Charlie and Lorie Epstein, the Eleanor and Howard Morgan Family Foundation, Dana and Rob Hamwee, Daniel Krizek, Nancy and Howard Marks, Chris Ouwinga, Christian Peneff, SeneGence, Mark S. Siegel, Todd and Karen Wanek, Sergey Young, and an anonymous donor. Global scientific advisors, including the Scientific Director at National Institute on Aging, Senior Scientific Director at American Federation for Aging Research, Director of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, and Head of Clinical Medicine at University of Cambridge, have helped inform the prize design and will advise in various capacities throughout the competition.

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