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Professor Rory Collins, Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank responds to claims about inappropriate access to UK Biobank data.
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Former CEO and Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt and Citadel CEO Ken Griffin donate over £16 million – matched by Government – for consortium to scale up UK Biobank’s wealth of health data
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First-of-its-kind dataset – based on samples from over 54,000 UK Biobank volunteer participants – lays the foundation for future discovery of new drug targets.
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UK Biobank participants have been meeting at focus groups all over the UK to discuss their views on two important issues.
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UK Biobank, the world’s most significant source of data and biological samples for health research, is set to receive £127.6m to fund a move to a larger, faster, and more efficient, purpose-built facility at Bruntwood SciTech’s Manchester Science Park.
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Scientists will use images from the world’s largest whole-body scanning study to see how people’s brains, hearts, abdomens and bones have aged and accelerate research into the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of our major diseases.
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UK Biobank’s Principal Investigator, Professor Sir Rory Collins, has today become the 60,000th volunteer to take part in the world’s largest internal organ imaging study.
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UK Biobank receives recognition from its core funders for creating a world-leading research resource
UK Biobank’s founding funders recently completed their latest 5-yearly review of UK Biobank and agreed to renew funding for the next 5 years.
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The collection of whole-body repeat imaging scans of 60,000 UK Biobank participants will provide researchers with a unique set of longitudinal measures to understand the determinants and progression of disease in mid-to-later life.
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UK Biobank has today added the final tranche of exome sequencing data to its research database. This represents completion of cohort-wide exome sequencing for over 470,000 participants within the UK Biobank resource.
