> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/canadian-covid-19-genomics-network/ - Published: 1999-01-02T12:38:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-20T04:26:03.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, Organization, COVID-19 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.[\[1\]](#fn1) 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.[\[1:1\]](#fn1) ## Organization | Name | Position | Notes | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Samira Mubareka](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Samira-Mubareka) | Viral Sequencing Project Implementation Committee[\[2\]](#fn2) | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, [COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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:[\[3\]](#fn3) - Alberta Precision Laboratories - [British Columbia Centre for Disease Control](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Public-Health-Agency-of-Canada) (PHAC) - [Public Health Ontario](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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: - August 11, 2021: "[Precision Response to the Rise of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Variant of Concern by Combining Novel PCR Assays and Genome Sequencing for Rapid Variant Detection and Surveillance](https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00315-21)" ## External links - [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=canadian%5Fcovid-19%5Fgenomics%5Fnetwork) --- 1. *CanCOGeN.* Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1) 2. *Samira Mubareka.* Sunnybrook Research Institute. Retrieved September 11, 2024, from [↩︎](#fnref2) 3. *CanCOGeN Partners.* Genome Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref3)