Scientific Conference 2023
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Innovation for tomorrow's health
UK Biobank held our scientific conference in London on the 13th December 2023.
A one day event featuring world-leading speakers, exciting data developments, and updates on novel scientific results.
Presentations covered the opportunities for health research through expanded linkage to healthcare data, how UK Biobank can facilitate research into dementia, plus details of the highly anticipated release of whole genome sequencing data on all 500,000 UK Biobank participants.
Dr Julia Carrasco-Zanini
Sanchez, Queen Mary University of London, is the winner of the UK Biobank 2023 Early Career Researcher of the Year Award - congratulations!
We received a huge number of abstracts from students and early career researchers from all over the world. Entries were judged for their scientific merit, quality and originality, as well as their likely impact to improve human health. Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to Julia for her excellent entry entitled: Proteomic prediction of common and rare diseases.
“I am really honoured to win the UK Biobank Early Career Researcher of the Year Award. I am excited to share the results of our incredible industry-academia collaboration exploring the potential to use plasma proteomics for prediction and screening of a diverse range of diseases”.
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2023 UK Biobank Early Career Researcher of the Year Award Runner Up: Dr Sarah Margaret Urbut, Massachusetts General Hospital
"I am so incredibly honoured, appreciative and excited to be recognized by the UK Biobank. The UK Biobank project has been absolutely invaluable to my development as a scientist and physician and has changed the way I think about data, genomics, and medicine."
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2023 UK Biobank Early Career Researcher of the Year Award Runner Up: Dr Kristia Yiangou, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
"I am so grateful and honoured for receiving this prestigious award from the UK Biobank scientific conference. I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr Kyriaki Michailidou and all our great collaborators for their support and guidance, and the judges for selecting our project among such excellent other research projects. UK Biobank has facilitate the collective effort of the scientific community to improve public health and thus the quality of life of thousands of individuals worldwide. Thank you so much."
Agenda
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11.00 - 11.05 Professor Patrick Chinnery, MRC
Welcome and opening remarks
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11.05 - 11.20 Professor Sir Rory Collins, UK Biobank
Past, present and future plans
Morning session: Facilitating dementia research
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11.20 - 11.25 Professor Sir Rory Collins, UK Biobank
Session Chair
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11.25 - 11.35 Professor Nadeem Sarwar, Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission
The Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission and UK Biobank
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11.35 - 11.45 Professor Naomi Allen, UK Biobank
Identifying dementia and cognitive decline
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11.45 - 11.55 Professor Siddharthan Chandran, UK DRI, Edinburgh University
Developing diagnostic markers for dementia
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11.55 - 12.05 Professor Paul Matthews, Imperial College London, UK DRI
Enhanced characterisations of risks of dementia
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12.05 - 12.30 All speakers - Panel Discussion
Additional panel member: Dr Vanessa Raymont, University of Oxford
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12.30 - 13.30 Lunch and networking
Early Career Researchers poster presentation
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13.30 - 13.35 Professor Ben Lacey, UK Biobank
Early Career Researcher of the Year Award announcement
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13.35 - 13.45
Early Career Researcher of the Year Award winner presentation
Afternoon session: Linkage to healthcare data
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13.45 - 13.50 Sir Ian Gilmore, Liverpool University
Session Chair
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13.50 - 14.00 Dr Thomas Littlejohns, University of Oxford
Value of UK Biobank primary care data
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14.00 - 14.10 Dr Prabhu Arumugam, Genomics England
The value of tumour sequencing data for research
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14.10 - 14.20 Professor Reecha Sofat, Liverpool University
Value of prescription data
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14.20 - 14.30 Professor Daphne Koller, Insitro
The use of histopath to power discovery
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14.30 - 14.55 All speakers: Panel discussion
Additional panel member: Professor Nicola Perrin, AMRC
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14.30 - 14.55 All speakers: Panel discussion
Additional panel member: Dame Clare Gerada, Immediate former President RCGP, GP South London
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14.55 - 15.25 Tea break and networking
Final session: Extending genomics
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15.25- 15.30: Professor Matthew Loose, Nottingham University
Session Chair
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15.30 - 15.40: Dr Robert Scott, GSK
Preliminary analyses of WGS data on 0.5M participants'
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15.40 - 15.50: Dr Melissa Miller, Pfizer
Unique insights through enhanced proteomics and whole genomes
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15.50 - 16.00: Professor Jonathan Mill, Exeter University
Importance of measuring DNA methylation in UKB
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16.00 - 16.10: Dr Lucy Burkitt-Gray, UK Biobank
Accelerating your research through the UK Biobank RAP
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16.10 - 16.35: All speakers: Panel discussion
Additional panel member: Dr Keren Carss, AstraZeneca
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16.35 - 16.45: Rt.Hon Lord Kakkar KBE, UK Biobank Board
Closing remarks
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17.00 - 18.00 Drinks Reception
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