====== Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network ======

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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.((//CanCOGeN.// Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://archive.ph/LpFH3))

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.
===== Affiliations =====

==== 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.((//CanCOGeN Partners.// Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from https://archive.ph/KcLqD))

=== Genome Canada network ===

  * [[Genome Canada]]
  * [[Genome British Columbia]]
  * [[Genome Alberta]]
  * [[Genome Prairie]]
  * [[Ontario Genomics]]
  * [[Génome Québec]]
  * [[Genome Atlantic]]

=== Hospital Labs ===

  * [[Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre]]/Shared Hospital Laboratory
  * [[Sinai Health]]
  * [[Unity Health Toronto]]
  * [[sickkids|Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)]]
  * [[Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association]]
  * [[Health Sciences North]]
  * [[Kingston Health Sciences Centre]]
  * [[London Health Sciences Centre]]
  * [[St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton]]
  * [[Hamilton Health Sciences]]

=== Partner Organizations ===

  * [[CGEn]]
  * [[public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Agency of Canada]]
  * [[National Microbiology Laboratory]]
  * [[Michael Smith Laboratories]]
  * [[Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network]]
  * [[Ontario Institute for Cancer Research]]

=== Provincial Public Health Labs ===

  * [[BC Centre for Disease Control]] (BCCDC)
  * [[Alberta Precision Labs]] (APL)
  * [[public_health_agencies:canada:Public Health Ontario]] (PHO)
  * [[Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec]](LSPQ)
  * [[Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory]] (RRPL)
  * [[Manitoba Cadham Provincial Laboratory]]
  * [[public_health_agencies:canada:Nova Scotia Health Authority]]
  * [[Vitalité Health Network]]
  * [[public_health_agencies:canada:Eastern Health]]
  * [[public_health_agencies:Canada:Health PEI]]

=== University Labs ===

  * [[Dalhousie University]]
  * [[McGill University]]
  * [[McMaster University]]
  * [[Simon Fraser University]]
  * [[University of British Columbia]]
  * [[University of Calgary]]
  * [[University of Manitoba]]
  * [[University of Ottawa]]
  * [[University of Toronto]]
  * [[University of Western Ontario]]

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

  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/canadian-covid-19-genomics-network/|White Rose Wiki]]