Using the UK Biobank Study for biomedical research
The UK Biobank study has recruited 500,000 volunteers from all around the UK aged 40-69 at enrolment. This age group is being studied because it involves people at risk over the next few decades of developing a wide range of important diseases (including cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia). The purpose of this talk is to provide an introduction to this resource for health research and guidance on how to access and handle this data. I will also show preliminary results from current studies we are doing within the Health Behaviours team in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Date: 7 November 2018, 10:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Speaker: Dr Carmen Piernas (Research Fellow, NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Organiser: Dr Jenny Hirst (University of Oxford)
Part of: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Dan Richards-Doran, Jessy Morton