Our 2025 Scientific Conference will take place on Monday 8th December!
Explore the highlights of our annual Scientific Conference which took place in London on 10 December 2024.
More than 700 people attended the conference in person and 1,450 viewed the online stream from over 70 countries around the world. Attendees had the chance to hear about how access to primary care data would be transformational for the dataset, future projects to enhance our data and a taste of the scientific discoveries being powered by UK Biobank.
For the first time, we also invited over 250 UK Biobank colleagues to the event to celebrate all their efforts this year.
Our 2024 programme included:
Access Developments: the latest advancements in accessing UK Biobank resources.
Primary Care Data: discussion about the transformative value of primary care data for research.
Brain Health: insights into new plans for deepening our understanding of brain health.
Plus, the winner of the 2024 UK Biobank Early Career Researcher of the Year was revealed!
Watch a stream of the 2024 sessions
This is a playlist and will auto-play through the conference sessions. Click the playlist button in the top right of the player window to view all sessions.
Winner of the 2024 Early Career Researcher of the Year
Art Schuermans, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard KU Leuven
For his abstract titled: Integrative proteomic analyses across common cardiac diseases yield mechanistic insights and enhanced prediction
“It really is an incredible honour to be named UK Biobank Early Career Researcher of the Year. I’ve been following the winners of this award for a number of years and it is an amazing feeling to get this recognition and to become part of this tradition of terrific research all over the world. Thank you.”
Art Schuermans
Runners up
Saba Ishrat, University of Oxford
Title: Association between cannabis use and brain structure and function: an observational and Mendelian randomization study
Maria Zanti, Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
Title: Analysis of more than 400,000 women provides case-control evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification
Highly Commended by the UK Biobank Participant Advisory Group
Pavel Loginovic, University of Exeter
Title: Genetic Risk Scores for Prediction of Multiple Sclerosis and Other Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease in Inflammatory Eye Presentations
