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Eric Topol

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Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So we've watched these three initiatives that I think you were involved in.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

UK Biobank, which has had more impact than any cohort ever assembled.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Every day, there's another paper using that data.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Yeah, yeah.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

There's Genomes England, and now Our Future Health, which a lot of people don't know about here, which is well into the 5 million people enrollment.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Can you tell us about, you know, this is now 15 years ago plus when these were started, and of course now with a new one that's the biggest ever.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

What was your thinking and involvement in how you built the UK to be a world leader in this space?

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

It really is.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

I'm just blown away by the progress you've made.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And what was interesting, too, besides you all weren't complacent about, oh, we got this UK biobank, and you just kept forging ahead.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And by the way, I really share this importance of finally what has been a fantasy of primary prevention, which I never really achieved.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

It's always, oh, after a heart attack, then only you know.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

But that's what I wrote about in Super Ager's book, and I'll get you a copy.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Yeah, absolutely.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And what we've learned, you know, for example, from the UK biobank is not just, of course, the genomics that you touched on, but the proteomics.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Yeah, the organ clocks and all these other layers of data.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So that gets me to my next topic, which I know you're all over it, which is AI.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So when I did the NHS review back in 2018, 2019,

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

The group of people, which were amazing, that I had to work with, no doubt why the UK punches well beyond its weight.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

I had about 50 people, and they just said, you know what?