====== AllerGen ======

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**AllerGen Inc.**, the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network, is a not-for-profit organization hosted at [[McMaster University]] in Hamilton, Ontario that "promotes the work of Canadian researchers and organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life of people suffering from allergic and related immune diseases."((//About us.// (2020). AllerGen. https://archive.ph/YtwtA))

===== COVID-19 =====

==== Funding ====

  * Received “more than $400,000.00” in funding from the [[COVID-19 Immunity Task Force]] “to study how COVID-19 is impacting individuals and families across Canada.”((Beck, M. (2020, September 16). //CITF awards CHILD Cohort Study more than $400K to study COVID-19 impacts.// AllerGen. https://archive.ph/HcORy))
 
  * Received “nearly $700,000.00” from the Government of Alberta to measure [[COVID-19]] antibody prevalence among Albertan children at the [[University of Alberta]].((Beck, M. (2020, September 10). //Alberta funds COVID-19 antibody testing among Edmonton children in CHILD Cohort Study.// AllerGen. https://archive.ph/K4JPY))

  * AllerGen investigator Dr. [[Christopher Carlsten]] received a portion of a $2 million grant from the [[Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research]] to study long-term lung impacts of COVID-19, and testing to determine long-term quality of life.((Beck, M. (2020, June 10). //AllerGen investigator receives MSFHR grant for COVID-19 research.// AllerGen. https://archive.ph/H5eBw)) ((//COVID-19 Research Response Fund Award Recipients.// (2021, April 15). Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
https://archive.ph/KL0LC))

  * Received $1.7 million from the [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) and [[Research Manitoba]] to “study how individuals and families across Canada have been impacted directly by COVID-19 infection and indirectly by pandemic-related social and economic upheaval.”((Beck, M. (2020, June 25). //CHILD Cohort Study awarded $1.7M to study impacts of COVID-19 on Canadian families.// AllerGen. https://archive.ph/RasDp))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/AllerGen|White Rose Wiki]]