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<div class="o-flex"> <div class="o-flex__col o-flex__col--8"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">A powerful resource to improve public health</h2> <p>UK Biobank is a large-scale biomedical database and research resource that is enabling new scientific discoveries to be made that improve public health. The resource provides accredited researchers secure access to de-identified medical and genetic data through our secure cloud-based platform from half a million volunteer participants to improve our understanding of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses. </p> <p>Through the long-term commitment of 500,000 participants, together with the support of our funders, we are enabling new scientific discoveries that benefit people's health.</p> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex__col o-flex__col--4"> <div class="c-box"> <div class="video-wrapper"> <iframe width="360" height="203" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BSBy4G7-V-4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="o-flex"> <div class="o-flex__col"> <div class="c-stat c-stat--no-icon"> <div class="c-stat__icon-box"> <span class="fas fa-comment c-stat__icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> </div> <div class="c-stat__content"> <h2 class="c-stat__head" style="font-size:1.26rem;"> Positive impact </h2> <p class="c-stat__text">"You're changing not only health and medicine but you are changing language, culture and the way people think about health"</p> <p class="c-stat__sub-text">Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="row clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 column c-box c-content"> <p><iframe width="100%" height="650" src="https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=16Zi6jbvL-Tt2LNmd-HLPNCItiDioM964vy1FsC4Ga5U&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="o-flex"> <div class="o-flex__col"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Who can use UK Biobank?</h2> <p>UK Biobank’s aim is to encourage as many bona fide researchers as possible to use the research resource to perform health research that’s in the public interest, whether they are from academic, commercial or charitable organisations – anywhere in the world. We do not accept applications from insurance companies. Find out more about how we control access to the data in the <a href="/enable-your-research/apply-for-access/" title="Apply for access">Apply for access</a> page. </p> <p>This approach is enabling scientific discoveries that are changing our understanding of why and how diseases develop in some people but not in others. This will help to identify ways to prevent and treat a wide range of diseases in the future.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001779" class="e-btn">Find out more</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex__col"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <div class="video-wrapper"> <iframe width="360" height="203" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sLVxAH0_whA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="o-flex"> <div class="o-flex__col o-flex__col--8"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">International collaboration</h2> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Improving the world's health is complex, which is why UK Biobank fosters collaboration between experts from academia, industry, charity, and government to support advances in health research.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Applications continue to grow year on year from 100 countries, with over 80% of applications to use the research resource coming from international researchers. We take pride in being able to showcase the UK as a place for enabling pioneering health research across the global research community. </p> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex__col o-flex__col--4"> <div class="c-box"> <img src="/media/5vlpzhls/map-edit-collab.jpg" alt=""> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="row clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 column c-box c-content"> <a class="c-stat c-stat--link c-stat--no-icon" href="/enable-your-research/research-analysis-platform/"> <div class="c-stat__icon-box"> <span class="fas fa-hand-holding c-stat__icon" aria-hidden="true"></span> </div> <div class="c-stat__content"> <h2 class="c-stat__head" style="font-size:1.46rem;"> Democratising access <span class="fa fa-arrow-alt-circle-right c-stat__link" aria-hidden="true"></span> </h2> <p class="c-stat__text">Our cloud based Research Analysis Platform enables greater access to our data from early career researchers and those in low-middle income countries</p> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="c-section"> <div class="o-container "> <div class="o-flex"> <div class="o-flex__col"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Sharing research</h2> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">UK Biobank encourage all researchers using its data, to share their findings by publishing in open access scientific journals. Once results are published researchers are required to return their results to us so that they can be shared with other scientists who can then test these findings, or use them to advance their own work. New research findings, using UK Biobank data, also regularly appear in the mainstream and scientific media and we support scientists to maximise their impact.</p> <p><a href="http://biobank.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/crystal/" class="e-btn">View the data showcase</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex__col"> <div class="c-box c-content"> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Accelerating innovation</h2> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; segoe ui&quot;,roboto,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,arial,sans-serif,&quot;apple color emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui emoji&quot;,&quot;segoe ui symbol&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 0px;">Advances in science and health are moving at a fantastic rate with the integration of new technologies. UK Biobank has been at the forefront of innovation in biomedical research for nearly two decades, from our large-scale storage processes for biological samples, to our adoption of new technologies to enable genetic analysis on an unprecedented scale. 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