RSS Manchester - March 14th 2007

Royal Statistical Society
Manchester Local Group

Wednesday 14th March 2007, 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Room 2.10, Sandra Burslem Building, MMU, Lower Ormond Street
[Formerly All Saints West - Building 2 on www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/allsaints.php]

Note the change from the usual room

A joint meeting with the RSS Medical Section

UK Biobank

[Part of the National Science & Engineering Week's activities, 9 - 18 March 2007
www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/NSEW/index.html]

HILARY NEWISS (Ethics and Governance Committee, UK Biobank)
Ethics and Governance of UK Biobank

I will discuss the approach to ethics and governance taken by the principal funders of the UK Biobank (the Medical Research Council, the Department of Health, the Wellcome Trust) - which will be one of the world's largest biological sample collections and databases for research into the genetic and environmental factors involved in common diseases of middle age. I will explore the decision to establish an oversight body, the development and principles of the public Ethics and Governance Framework developed for the resource, the creation of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council, and its purpose, structure and practice. I will conclude by considering the features of the Intellectual Property and Access Policy of UK Biobank, including the role of the Ethics and Governance Council in the management of access.

Hilary's talk

BILL OLLIER (Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, University of Manchester)
UK Biobank: a study of genes and environment

The history and progress of UK Biobank will be discussed.

ELIO RIBOLI (Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London)
EPIC network bio-repositories for gene-environment interaction studies

The EPIC study was devised to investigate relationships between nutrition, obesity, lack of physical activity and related metabolic and hormonal factors, and cancer. To facilitate this investigation, a network of biorepositories with samples of DNA, plasma, serum and erythrocytes was established to store over 10 million samples from 420,000 volunteers.

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