The 2nd Australian UK Biobank Research Symposium will be held in-person from February 11 to February 13, 2026, at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Symposium Goals
Showcase a unique data resource available to scientists around the world, through the presentation of cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines.
Foster and reinforce scientific collaborations between users of UK Biobank data in Australia/Asia Pacific region.
About UK Biobank
The UK Biobank is a prospective study and trail-blazing research resource of 500,000 individuals from the United Kingdom with dense health, lifestyle, genomic, imaging and biomarker data. It is longitudinal and continuously growing in data richness. The UK Biobank currently has about 3,500 ongoing research projects from Principal Investigators around the world.
Invited Speakers
We are delighted to have a number keynote speakers from the University of Oxford:
- Professor Sir Rory Collins FRS, CEO of the UK Biobank, who will give the opening presentation (virtually)
- Professor David Hunter AC, Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Director, Translational Epidemiology Unit, and previously Chief Scientific Advisor of the Our Future Health research programme
- Professor Naomi Wray FAMS FAA, Michael Davys Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Professorial Research Fellow at the Big Data Institute, whose work focuses on psychiatric and complex trait genomics.
- Professor Jonathan Emberson, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UK lead-PI of the Mexico City Prospective Study, investigating genetic and non-genetic causes of premature morbidity and mortality.
- Dr Sam Morris, a Nuffield Department of Population Health Early Career Research Fellow in genetics, working with the China Kadoorie Biobank
In addition to their talks, the Symposium will have contributed talks (selected from submitted abstracts) and posters.
Training Modules
The Symposium will be preceded by Training Modules on Monday February 9th (from mid-day) and on Tuesday February 10th, where participants will learn how to navigate the UK Biobank data resource and RAP platform and how to perform large-scale analyses in epidemiology, genomics and imaging.
We welcome you all to Brisbane in the summer!
Loic Yengo, Peter Visscher, Naomi Wray and Anjali Henders