UK Biobank at the Festival of Genomics
Join UK Biobank at the Biodata stage at the Festival of Genomics 26th January 2023
Accelerating genomic medicine: collaborative approaches from UK Biobank
UK Biobank, alongside a panel of industry and academic experts, will discuss how collaboration across sectors and borders is facilitating scientific discoveries for human health. Find out more about how genomic sequencing on an unprecedented scale is enabling research into the genetic determinants of disease through making these data accessible to researchers worldwide via UK Biobanks’ cloud-based Research Analysis Platform.
Dr Mark Effingham, Deputy CEO, UK Biobank
11am Welcome from the session chair
Professor Naomi Allen, Chief Scientist, UK Biobank
11:05-11:10 - Value of UK Biobank for genomic health research
Dr Asha Collins, General Manager Biobanks, DNAnexus
11:10-11:25 - The UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform
Aiden Doherty, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Oxford University
11:25-11:40 - Reproducible machine learning of wearables to identify novel targets
Dr Keren Carss, Director of Genome Analytics, AstraZeneca
11:40-11:55 - Whole genome sequencing 0.5M participants in UK Biobank
Dr Rowland Illing, Director and Chief Medical Officer, AWS
11:55-12:10 How the AWS cloud supports equitable research
Panel discussion and Q&A 12:10-12:30
All speakers
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