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Expert Working Groups

Expert working groups

UK Biobank’s expert working groups play a key advisory role in supporting the Executive Team to develop and implement important enhancements. Through their support of the project, they play a vital role in shaping new enhancements that will support world leading health research.

Drawing on their expertise, members guide UK Biobank to develop new data collection that provides the most scientific value to the global health research community. Our current working groups focus on our most recent, large-scale projects, whole-genome sequencing on the full cohort of half a million people, and the detailed imaging of 100,000 participants.

UK Biobank Board and Committees

UK Biobank Board

Access Committee

Audit and Risk Committee

Ethics Advisory Committee

Information Governance Committee

Advisory groups

International Scientific Advisory Board

Strategic Oversight Committee

Participant Advisory Group

Expert Working Groups

Genetics Expert Working Group

Chair: Professor Matthew Hurles (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Professor Matt Loose (University of Nottingham)

Professor Gil McVean (University of Oxford/Genomics PLC)

Dr Cordelia Langford  (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Dr Thomas Keane  (European Bioinformatics Institute) 

Professor Michael Dunn, Head of Genetics and Molecular Sciences, Wellcome

Professor Nicole Soranzo (Cambridge University)

Dr Tim Peakman  (University of Leeds)

Dr Lon Cardon (The Jackson Laboratory)

Imaging Expert Working Group

Chair: Professor Paul Matthews (Imperial College London)

Professor Jimmy Bell (University of Westminster London)

Professor Andrew Blamire (Newcastle University)

Dr Tony Goldstone (Imperial College London)

Professor Nicholas Harvey (University of Southampton)

Professor Stefan Neubauer (University of Oxford)

Professor Paul Leeson (University of Oxford)

Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)

Professor Stephen Smith (University of Oxford)

Professor Steffen Petersen (Queen Mary College London)

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