UK Biobank offers its wares as of today as Prof Rawlins takes the chair
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Executive Summary
Researchers from industry and academia alike will be able to access the information stored in the not-for-profit UK Biobank as of today. Also today, Professor Sir Mike Rawlins, chair of the UK's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE), has been announced as chairman of the organisation, replacing Sir Alan Langlands, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and former CEO of the NHS, who over the past eight years has steered the project through its establishment and early phases.