We follow the lives of half a million volunteers to learn who falls ill and why, so scientists around the world can create better ways to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases for everyone, everywhere.
Researchers worldwide use our data, tools and support to make discoveries which otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
Our impact
Find out how healthcare is being changed by discoveries made with our participants’ data.
Five extra minutes of walking per day could avert up to 10% of early deaths, exercise-tracking data from more than 135,000 people over 40 suggest.
There should be more focus on finding treatments that target the ‘Alzheimer’s gene’, researchers argue.
About our data
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Who can use it?
Researchers must go through our approval process to access the data.
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How can I access it?
We make the data available to researchers around the world via our secure cloud-based platform.
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Who are our participants?
Our 500,000 participants were recruited between 2006 and 2010, when they were 40 to 69 years old.
News
UK Biobank has released the final set of data on nearly 250 metabolites – the molecules in our blood produced by our bodies as we go about our lives – in half a million volunteers.
The latest update to UK Biobank’s comprehensive dataset is now available to approved researchers around the world via UK Biobank’s Research Analysis Platform (UKB-RAP).
“UK Biobank data is so vast, and so detailed. It has changed the way we do research in human genetics. We are beginning not only to understand the complex genetic basis of a whole variety of devastating human diseases, but also how to better use this genetic information to understand how to predict and treat these diseases.”
Professor Nicole Soranzo, Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute