UK Biobank

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AI is transforming healthcare, opening new doors to future research. Dr Shikta Das, Scientific Lead at AstraZeneca explains why this is a turning point for science. 🔽

Lead Research Nurse (Brain Health) (3.5 Year FTC) Job Opening: Lead Research Nurse (Brain Health) (3.5 Year FTC) at UK Biobank in Cheadle.

✅ Vacancy: Lead Research Nurse
A fantastic opportunity to work on our Brain Health study!

📍 Location Cheadle, Stockport
✔️ Salary: £51,885
❌ Deadline 1st March
🔗 Learn more, including how to apply: ow.ly/tNmE50YhZry

We're not just here to enable research today, but to empower future studies that can transform human health for years to come.

Hear from Prabs Arumugam, Clinical Innovation Lead at @awscloud.bsky.social, on the expanding opportunities for health discoveries via our dataset.

Consented cohorts such as @ukbiobank.bsky.social, Genomics England and Our FutureHealth will now be able to make use of health data from people who have agreed to their GP records being used in research.

Read our response ⬇️

Major milestone for health research as UK Government grants access to UK Biobank volunteers’ GP patient data The UK Government has published a data provision notice, allowing coded GP patient data in England to be shared with cohorts like UK Biobank.

Learn more about why the addition of GP data will transform the power of UK Biobank to help researchers investigate the full spectrum of disease 🔽

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Yesterday the UK Government published a data provision notice paving the way for coded GP data in England to be shared with consented cohorts like UK Biobank.

Hear from Val, a UK Biobank participant on her hopes for the future.

Major UK research resources get long-awaited access to GP data - Research Professional News Government directive for sharing health records hailed as “watershed moment” for projects like UK Biobank

Major UK research resources get long-awaited access to GP data

Naomi Allen, chief scientist at @ukbiobank.bsky.social tells me it is a “watershed moment” for the resource and for global health research in @resprofnews.bsky.social

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Why GP patient data should excite us all Prof Sir Rory Collins, CEO of UK Biobank, outlines how access to GP data for UK Biobank’s volunteers will transform research potential.

Having the GP data will double the number of recorded cases of some health conditions and enable researchers to investigate disease across the full spectrum of disease severity.

Learn more from UK Biobank CEO and Principal Investigator, Professor Sir Rory Collins: ow.ly/Jmxu50Ycgyw

✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research.

This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.

Why one of the world’s most common viruses may have lifelong consequences for you DNA from nearly 750,000 people reveals genes that make people prone to persistent Epstein-Barr virus infections.

Read the full research story 🔽

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@mskcancercenter.bsky.social, @astra-zeneca.bsky.social

The study analysed genetic information from nearly 750,000 people, including @ukbiobank.bsky.social participants.

Infectious disease specialist Alexander Mentzer from @ox.ac.uk 💬

Why one of the world's most common viruses may have lifelong consequences for you 🔽

Researchers have discovered 22 genes that make people prone to persistent Epstein-Barr virus infections which are linked to long-term conditions inc rheumatoid arthritis, cancer & obstructive pulmonary disease.

UK Biobank at the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance's 29th Annual Scientific Session UK Biobank will be speaking at and attending Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance's (SCMR) 29th Annual Scientific Session from 4-7 February 2026.

If you’re attending, make sure to say hello! It’s a great chance to exchange ideas and explore what’s next for CMR together. Find out more about his session: www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data...

We're thrilled to be heading to SCMR 2026 in Brazil on Saturday 7th February! ✅

Adam Lewandowski, UK Biobank Deputy Chief Scientist, will be there throughout the event, sharing expertise, connecting with the cardiovascular MR community and diving into how UK Biobank data can help shape the field.

Visit our booth #94 to meet with the UK Biobank Team! Wednesday, Jan 28th 12:30 - 14:30. The following UK Biobank team members will be in our booth: George Foody, Senior Bioinformatician, Lydia King, Bioinformatician, and Lora Boteva, Senior Data Analyst

Join us and our partners @ukbiobank.bsky.social at Festival of Genomics! They’ll be at our booth #94 on Wednesday, January 28 answering your questions about the dataset and working on UKB-RAP. Don’t miss it!

#FOG2026 #UKBiobank #genomics #populationhealth #precisionmedicine

Hear from:
✅ Deputy Chief Scientist, Professor Martin Rutter
✅ Deputy CEO, Dr Mark Effingham
✅ CEO & Principal Investigator, Professor Sir Rory Collins

Learn more: www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data...

Just one week to go until the Festival Genomics and Biodata, where you can hear from us across three sessions!

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Free and online tomorrow, our latest webinar on metabolomic biomarker data 🔽✅

Inside the world’s largest metabolomics study webinar Join us on 21 January 2026 for a webinar introducing UK Biobank’s NMR metabolic biomarker data, offering unprecedented opportunities to study metabolism and disease at scale.

Find out more, including how to register 🔽

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🗣️ Hear from a panel of experts about how the data was generated, what's included and how you can harness it for your own research.

Webinar: Inside the world's largest metabolomics study. On 21 January, 3pm (GMT) and is a free virtual event. Register online.

Join us for our upcoming 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. 🔽

How tiny tweaks to daily activity could cut mortality Five extra minutes of exercise per day could avert up to 10% of early deaths, exercise-tracking data from 135,000+ people over 40 suggest.

Read the full story: www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/research-sto...

💬 Study leader, Professor @ulfekelund.bsky.social from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences 🔽

🏃 Five extra minutes of walking per day could avert up to 10% of early deaths, exercise-tracking data from over 135,000 UK Biobank participants suggest.

The results infer that even very small increases in activity could make a difference, particularly for less-active people.

Single gene behind almost all Alzheimer’s cases With one gene likely responsible for at least 3 in 4 Alzheimer’s cases, researchers argue for more focus on finding treatments targeting it.

The study analysed data from nearly half a million people, including over 170,000 UK Biobank participants.

Learn more 🔽

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📰 Single gene behind almost all Alzheimer's cases ✅

New research suggests that eliminating the effect of one gene could prevent a large number of Alzheimer's and dementia cases.

Brain scan pioneered by UK Biobank helps clinicians to diagnose dementia UK Biobank's 15-minute brain-imaging method allows doctors at 11 memory clinics to offer patients more tailored treatments.

This scan is helping doctors to make more accurate dementia diagnoses and ultimately give people the support and treatments to match their needs.

Learn more: www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/research-sto...

🧠 A 15-minute brain-imaging process, developed by UK Biobank is now being used in 11 NHS memory clinics to offer patients with neurodegenerative conditions more tailored treatments ✅

New blog post: 500,000 metabolomes now available for research

Researchers can now explore comprehensive biomarker data across the full @ukbiobank.bsky.social dataset, enabling rare disease studies, cross-modal analyses, and new insights into systemic physiology. Learn more, link in the comments.

UK Biobank already includes imaging, genetics, biomarkers, NHS outcomes data, questionnaires, physical measures, lifestyle & environment.

What else would accelerate your research? Tell us in 10 minutes: eu.research.net/r/88...