Main Menu
Menu
Main Menu

Accessibility

Main Menu
Search
Close this search box.
ClosedHealth

COVID-19 precision health genomics for children: a multiomic study of the ABCCC (Alberta childhood COVID-19 cohort)

PROJECT LEAD(S)/CO-LEAD(S) Francois Bernier & Jim Kellner (University of Calgary)
COMPETITION/ FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Genome Canada - Alberta COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
PROJECT START DATE May 1, 2020
PROJECT END DATE December 31, 2021
ALBERTA’S ROLE Lead

BUDGET

$577,500

Working in concert with Alberta Health Services Public Health Officers, leading clinicians and Alberta Public Laboratories, the team will recruit the Alberta Childhood COVID-19 Cohort (ABCCC), consisting of all children under the age of 18 who undergo testing for the SARS-COV2 virus. Specifically, the project will: 1) assess the role of children’s immune response as well as their genetic makeup in order to determine risk factors for severe illness and gain insight into targeted treatments, and 2) study the epidemiology of pediatric COVID-19 infections by reading the viral genome to determine the origin and transmission patterns in Alberta of pediatric COVID-19 infections.

Related Projects

ActiveHealth

Transcriptional and epigenetic events underpinning Navacim-Induced TR1 cell formation and expansion

Competition/Funding OpportunityGenome Canada - Genomic Applications Partnership Program - GAPP

Project Lead(s)/Co-Lead(s)Pere Santamaria (University of Calgary) & Jord Cowan (Parvus Therapeutics Inc.)

ActiveHealth

Genomic testing of wastewater to promote public health and safeguard economic performance

Competition/Funding OpportunityGenome Canada - Genomic Applications Partnership Program - GAPP

Project Lead(s)/Co-Lead(s)Casey Hubert (University of Calgary) & Alex Alexander (Alberta Health)

SEE ALL

© 2023 Genome Alberta. All rights reserved.

Terms & Privacy Policy

Genome Alberta respectfully acknowledges that our head office is located on Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy, Siksika, Kainai and Piikani First Nations, as well as the Stoney Nakoda and Tsuut’ina First Nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Metis homeland.

We will continue the work of healing and reconciliation in our communities and look forward to building a path to lead us to a better relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the environment around us based on peace, friendship and respect.

Scroll to Top
Share
Copy Link