The world’s most comprehensive biomedical dataset
With data from our half a million participants, we are helping drive discoveries to advance modern medicine and transform everybody’s health.
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UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive dataset of biological, health and lifestyle information. Learn more about who we are.
Learn more about how UK Biobank works including information on who can use UK Biobank data, ethics and regulations, and how we protect our data.
UK Biobank is a growing organisation of around 300 members of staff. Find out about our leadership and governance structure.
UK Biobank funders have enabled the creation and development of our world-leading health research resource. Find out more about them.
UK Biobank has achieved many world firsts, and we are still far from reaching our full potential. Learn more about our plans for the future.
UK Biobank was established in the early 2000s to enable discoveries that improve human health. Learn more about our history.
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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.
UK Biobank is up there with our greatest achievements from the last 25 years…
Sir Jeremy Farrar, WHO Chief Scientist
and perhaps more than any other, UK Biobank will continue to be talked about in 100 years. People watched UK Biobank and are now replicating it in other parts of the world, and that is testament to its strengths, its governance and its impact. It’s not just what UK Biobank does, it’s the influence UK Biobank has on everything else.