We follow the lives of half a million volunteers to learn who falls ill and why, so scientists around the world can create better ways to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases for everyone, everywhere.
Researchers worldwide use our data, tools and support to make discoveries which otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
News
Professor Sir Rory Collins, CEO and Principal Investigator of UK Biobank, outlines how access to de-identified GP data for all UK Biobank’s 500,000 volunteers will transform the database’s research potential overnight.
The UK Government has published a data provision notice which paves the way for coded GP patient data in England to be shared with consented cohorts like UK Biobank.
Our impact
Find out how healthcare is being changed by discoveries made with our participants’ data.
Test that distinguishes the debilitating condition from other diseases could spare many people a long, uncertain path to the correct diagnosis.
One in four heart-failure cases in women might be preventable, health information from more than 230,000 female UK Biobank participants has revealed.
About our data
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Who can use it?
Researchers must go through our approval process to access the data.
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How can I access it?
We make the data available to researchers around the world via our secure cloud-based platform.
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Who are our participants?
Our 500,000 participants were recruited between 2006 and 2010, when they were 40 to 69 years old.
“UK Biobank data is so vast, and so detailed. It has changed the way we do research in human genetics. We are beginning not only to understand the complex genetic basis of a whole variety of devastating human diseases, but also how to better use this genetic information to understand how to predict and treat these diseases.”
Professor Nicole Soranzo, Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute