UK Biobank will be speaking at and attending the Royal Society’s conference – Transforming our future: prediction, prevention and early diagnosis in healthcare. Find us at a session below.
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- Date: Tuesday 17 – Wednesday 18 February 2026
- Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Session three: Population-based approaches
17 January 2026, 2:20pm – 3:40pm
Professor Sir Rory Collins will be presenting on ‘Developing a strategic approach to population-based discovery science‘ as part of this session.
Other speakers include:
- Professor Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer for England and Senior Responsible Officer for Genomics in the NHS
- Professor Raghib Ali, Our Future Health
- Dr Richard Scott, Genomics England
- Professor E Shyong Tai, Precision Health Research Singapore and National University of Singapore
The session will close with a Q&A.
Speaker
Sir Rory Collins is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and has led UK Biobank since its inception in 2005. He is known for pioneering large-scale epidemiological studies and clinical trials that have transformed cardiovascular disease prevention. He was knighted in 2011 for services to science.
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