The UK Biobank International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) meets once a year. The Board is chaired by Professor Stephen MacMahon, Director, The George Institute for International Health, Australia. UK Biobank is very grateful to them for the time they devote to the project.

Its members are shown in the photograph right, during a dinner held at Oriel College, Oxford following the November 2011 International Scientific Advisory Board meeting. From left to right, are:

Professor Susan Hankinson, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Professor Michael Kidd, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Silvia Franceschi, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
Professor Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University
Professor Stephen MacMahon, Director, The George Institute for International Health, Australia
Professor Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Teri Manolio, National Institute for Health, USA
Professor Terry Dwyer, Director Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Professor Bernard Keavney, University of Newcastle
Dr Michael Thun, American Cancer Society
Professor Dame Valerie Beral, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford

The remaining members, not shown in the photograph, are Professor Paul Burton, University of Leicester, Dr Mark Lathrop, National Centre for Genotyping, France and Professor Neil Risch, Stanford University, USA.