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Author: Rory Collins
Sir Rory Collins is the leader of UK Biobank and a British Heart Foundation professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He was appointed UK Biobank principal investigator and chief executive in 2005.
UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS
UK Biobank, the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research, needed a purpose-built data platform with compute and data-storage capabilities that provided analysis tools in a centralized environment and the flexibility to manage increasing quantities of data. This led to the establishment and launch of the secure, cloud-based UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform (RAP), which is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read this post to learn more about UK Biobank’s journey to becoming a globally accessible dataset for health researchers.