Funding
The CKB baseline survey and the first re-survey were supported by the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation in Hong Kong.
The long-term follow-up has been supported by: Wellcome, UKRI Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the British Hearth Foundation in the UK and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China.
Further funding from a wide range of grant-making bodies and organisations has been secured for a variety of research projects, sample assays, fellowships and scholarships acknowledged elsewhere as appropriate.