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Jamie Justice

XPRIZE

EVP, Health

Dr. Jamie Justice is the Executive Vice President Health Domain and Executive Director of the $101M Healthspan Prize at the nonprofit XPRIZE Foundation, and (Adjunct) at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM). Jamie completed graduate and postdoc training at University of Colorado Boulder. Jamie’s scientific work is dedicated to geroscience, an emerging field that targets biologic aging processes to improve age-related conditions, disability, and death. She was the recipient of the Jarrahi Research Scholars Fund in Geroscience Innovation, the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research, the 2022 NIA Nathan W Shock Awardee, and was named 2026 'Top 10 Women in Longevity'. Dr. Justice’s leadership at XPRIZE uses a competition model to drive capital to innovation and catalyze transformative solutions to optimize health for all, advance personalized approaches, and ignite breakthroughs in biotechnology and biomedicine. She leads the $101M XPRIZE Healthpsan global competition to incentivize innovative solutions that make healthy human aging possible. Dr. Justice also leads the design of future prizes for health breakthroughs, including a new program to advance ovarian function across the lifespan, and future concepts targeting suicide prevention, organ thermal bioengineering, innovation in synthetic cells, and computing challenges to support better health outcomes for everyone.

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From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology

Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?

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