Learn about events past and present, specifically for the UK Biobank researcher community, as well as opportunities to engage in UK Biobank’s work.
Upcoming events
UK Biobank’s Scientific Conference 2026 will take place on Thursday 10 December 2026. More details coming soon.
If you’re a registered UK Biobank researcher, make sure you’re opted in to hear about our latest events. Just log in to your AMS profile and check your communication preferences.
June
UK Biobank will be running a session and hosting a stand at the European Society for Human Genetics Conference 2026 on 13-16 June 2026.
Coming soon
Join us for a webinar exploring how researchers can use UK Biobank data with MILTON, a powerful machine learning platform developed by AstraZeneca.
Join us for a webinar providing you with a clear and practical overview of cloud computing costs within UK Biobank.
Past events
Catch up on the highlights of the UK Biobank Scientific Conference 2025 which took place on 8 December in London.
Webinar: Inside the world’s largest metabolomics study
Learn more about UK Biobank’s NMR metabolic biomarker data, now available for half a million participants as part of our November 2025 data release.
Read a summary on the Researcher Community.
Webinar: Exploring UK Biobank’s sleep data
Following data release v19, some of the team behind our extensive sleep survey share insights on the new data, practical tips on using them and ideas for how they can support your research.
UK Biobank imaging data symposium
Our imaging data symposium explores the new data available, showcases research from the scientific community, and highlights tools and support available through UK Biobank’s Research Analysis Platform (UKB-RAP).
Read a summary on the Researcher Community.
Webinar: Data Release v19 – Key insights & tips
An overview of newly released and updated UK Biobank data as part of data release v19, including the results from our extensive sleep survey, updated imaging data, and new genetic data formats.
Join Researcher Voices
We’re piloting a new virtual user group for UK Biobank researchers. Sign up today!
Researcher Voices is a virtual user group representing the voice of the UK Biobank researcher community:
- Provides a structured way for UK Biobank to gather insights directly from researchers.
- Opportunities to test new concepts and materials before launch.
- Co-develop improvements to tools, communications and processes
Researcher Voices is about making sure every decision reflects the real needs of our diverse research community. Your voice matters and we would love to hear it!
Miriam Kingsley, Head of Researcher Engagement, UK Biobank
How does it work?
- Open to any registered UK Biobank researcher.
- Flexible participation so that you can respond to as many or as few requests as you wish.
- Activities include surveys, focus groups, or testing new tools.
Expert working groups
Strategic oversight committee
The Strategic Oversight Committee guides the development of UK Biobank to ensure that we are enabling scientists internationally to conduct a wide range of health-related research in the public interest.
Drawing on their varied expertise, each working group supports UK Biobank in identifying, developing, and supervising the execution of new data collection that provides the most scientific value to the global health research community.
These working groups have been pivotal to the design and delivery of large-scale projects, such as whole-genome sequencing on the full cohort of half a million participants, and detailed imaging visits for 100,000 participants.
UK Biobank’s working groups comprise a diverse range of international experts. Each group plays a key advisory role in supporting the Scientific and Executive Team to develop and implement important enhancements to UK Biobank to support world-leading health research.
UK Biobank’s expert working groups are as follows:
Imaging
Imaging
- Chair: Professor Paul Matthews (The Rosalind Franklin Institute/UK DRI/Imperial College London, UK)
- Professor Andrew Blamire (Translational and Clinical Research Institute, University of Nottingham, UK)
- Professor Jimmy Bell (Research Centre for Optimal Health, University of Westminster, UK)
- Dr Tony Goldstone (Imperial College London, UK)
- Professor Nick Harvey (MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, UK)
- Professor Paul Leeson (University of Oxford, UK/Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)
- Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford, UK/Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging/WIN Physics Group)
- Professor Stefan Neubauer (University of Oxford, UK/University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research/Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)
- Professor Steffen Petersen (William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK/Barts Health NHS Trust, UK)
- Professor Stephen Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
Informatics
Informatics
- Chair: Dr Will Salerno (Regeneron Genetics Center, USA)
- George Asimenos (DNAnexus, USA)
- Ben Busby (NVIDIA, USA)
- Danielle Ciofani (Broad Institute, USA)
- Rebecca Cosgriff (LifeArc, UK)
- Dr Madeleine Cule (Calico, UK)
- Professor Alejandro Frangi (The Christabel Pankhurst Institute, Lead / NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre / University of Manchester, UK)
- David Glazer (Verily Life Sciences, USA)
- Professor Anna Hansell (University of Leicester, UK)
- Professor Claudia Langenberg (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Dr Augusto Rendon (Genomics England, UK)
- Professor Daniel Rueckert (Imperial College London, UK / University of Munich, Germany)
- Sebastian Wasilewski (AstraZeneca, UK)
- Joseph Watts (Department of Health and Social Care, UK)
- Sergei Yakneen (Isomorphic Labs, UK)
- Professor Chris Yau (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
- Dr Alan Young (University of Oxford, UK)
