BioBank

The UK Biobank project will be the worlds biggest resource for the study of the role of nature and nurture in health and disease. Up to half a million participants aged between 45 and 69 years will be involved in the study. They will be asked to contribute a blood sample, lifestyle details and their medical histories to create to create a national database of unprecedented size.

Further information about how the project meets the NCRI project criteria can be found here.

The project website can be found at http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/