AllerGen NCE

One in three Canadians is directly affected by allergic diseasenearly three million people suffer from asthma, approximately 7.5% of Canadians self-report a food allergy and an estimated 21,000 Canadians die each year due to air pollution. The associated healthcare and economic burden reaches billions of dollars each year and more research is neede... d, both in terms of understanding and treating these diseases. AllerGen Inc. (AllerGen), the Allergy, Genes and Environment Network, is a not-for-profit organization hosted at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, 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. AllerGen NCE was a national Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) supported by the Government of Canada from 2004-2020. AllerGen currently supports two legacy research initiatives of AllerGen NCE the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) and the Clinical Investigator Collaborative (CIC). For its 14 years as an NCE, AllerGen united Canadas leading experts in allergic diseases and asthma. Working in trans-disciplinary and multi-sectoral teams, and in partnership with organizations and stakeholders across sectors, AllerGen addressed gaps in knowledge and seized opportunities to generate new preventive strategies, diagnostic tests, therapeutic approaches, medications, public policies and patient education to reduce the morbidity, mortality and socio-economic impacts of allergy, asthma, anaphylaxis and related immune diseases. AllerGen also invested in training the next generation of researchers, innovators and clinician-scientists. By assimilating students and young professionals into multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral research and clinical training environments at over 20 sites across Canada, AllerGens HQP (Highly Qualified Personnel) training program created value-added, capacity building opportunities that promoted knowledge acquisition, national and international networking, and the development ...Read More