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Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network

The Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network, or CanCOGeN, is a country-wide, cross-agency network for large-scale SARS-CoV-2 and human host sequencing to track viral origin, spread and evolution, characterize the role of human genetics in COVID-19 disease.[1]

CanCOGeN is a “consortium of Canadian federal, provincial and regional public health authorities and their healthcare partners, academia, industry, hospitals, research institutes and large-scale sequencing centres,” launched by Genome Canada in April 2020.[1:1]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Samira Mubareka Viral Sequencing Project Implementation Committee[2] Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force

Partners

The official membership of the CanCOGeN network is composed of Genome Canada and its subsidiaries, hospital labs, partner organizations, public health labs, and university labs:[3]

  • Alberta Precision Laboratories
  • British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
  • Cadham Provincial Laboratory
  • Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN)
  • CGen
  • Dalhousie University
  • Eastern Health
  • Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA)
  • Genome Alberta
  • Genome Atlantic
  • Genome British Columbia
  • Genome Canada
  • Genome Prairie
  • Génome Québec
  • Hamilton Health Sciences
  • Health PEI
  • Health Sciences North
  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre
  • Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec (LSPQ)
  • London Health Sciences Centre
  • McGill University
  • McMaster University
  • Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL)
  • National Microbiology Laboratory (NML)
  • Nova Scotia Health Authority
  • Ontario Genomics
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • Public Health Ontario (PHO)
  • Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL)
  • SickKids
  • Simon Fraser University (SFU)
  • Sinai Health System
  • St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Unity Health Toronto
  • University of British Columbia (UBC)
  • University of Calgary
  • University of Manitoba
  • University of Ottawa
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Western Ontario
  • Vitalité Health Network

Publications

Publications affiliated with CanCOGeN include:

  1. CanCOGeN. Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from http://archive.vn/2022.02.09-190026/https://www.genomecanada.ca/en/cancogen ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Samira Mubareka. Sunnybrook Research Institute. Retrieved September 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240911004453/https://sunnybrook.ca/research/team/member.asp?m=417&page=529 ↩︎

  3. CanCOGeN Partners. Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from http://archive.vn/2022.02.09-190703/https://www.genomecanada.ca/en/cancogen/partners ↩︎