Health data from
500,000 people
IMAGE: UK Biobank’s automated sample storage and retrieval system.
What is UK Biobank?
Enabling worldwide scientific discoveries that benefit health
Our unique biomedical database is the largest, most detailed and most widely accessible of its kind.
Our Impact
Snapshots of how our participants have enabled researchers to make discoveries, and the impacts these have had on human healthcare.
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12 July 2024
Calculating personal risk of disease >
Identifying genetic variations helps to improve GP care for people at risk of heart attack and stroke.
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12 July 2024
How is your sleep?
We are learning more about sleep and snoring that might help more people get a good night’s sleep.
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We have a huge amount of data.
We have collected more genetic, proteomic, imaging data
than anyone else, anywhere.
About our data
Who can use it? >
Access is open to academic and commercial researchers worldwide based on our verification process and agreement to our standard contract.
Data storage and tools >
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We do this by providing easily accessible, de-identified data on half a million participants to scientists all over the world to undertake imaginative and pioneering studies that will transform health.
Our participants >
500,000 participants were recruited between 2006 and 2010.
They were aged between 40 and 69 years old, and living in the UK, when they were recruited. Most have taken part in follow-up studies.
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Latest News
12 July 2024
Nearly £50 million unlocked for world-leading UK Biobank following new industry backing >
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11 July 2024
UK Biobank in The Observer: why GP data would be transformational >
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11 July 2024
Response to Tony Blair Institute data trust report >
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