Jamie Justice

Impact

Jamie Justice is a geroscientist who works on testing the geroscience hypothesis - that targeting the basic biology of aging can delay or prevent multiple age-related diseases - in humans. Trained at the University of Colorado Boulder and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, she directed the Biogerontology Lab at Wake Forest, co-led the Integrative Biology Core of the Wake Forest Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, was a principal investigator of the NIA-supported Geroscience Education and Training Network, and was active in the Translational Geroscience Network and as an officer of the Gerontological Society of America's ESPO section. She is Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at the XPRIZE Foundation, where she leads XPRIZE Healthspan, a competition running 2023-2030 with a $101 million prize purse that challenges teams to develop therapies restoring muscle, cognitive and immune function by at least 10 years; 20 finalist teams have been named and 10 milestone awards of $1 million each made. She remains an adjunct professor in gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest. Her honours include the 2022 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research award and the 2022 NIA Nathan W. Shock award.

Metrics

• h-index 37 · google scholar as of 2026-09-23 source ↗

Research output

162 works · 6,058 citations · h-index 35 OpenAlex ↗

Selected publications

• Senolytics in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Results from a first-in-human, open-label, pilot study ↗ 2019 · 1,261 citations
• Biomarkers of aging for the identification and evaluation of longevity interventions ↗ 2023 · 695 citations
• A framework for selection of blood-based biomarkers for geroscience-guided clinical trials: report from the TAME Biomarkers Workgroup ↗ 2018 · 356 citations
• Validation of biomarkers of aging ↗ 2024 · 345 citations
• Physiological geroscience: targeting function to increase healthspan and achieve optimal longevity ↗ 2015 · 318 citations

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